The second rsync command for the updates gave me the following errors: rsync -avH mirror.dulug::archive/pub/yum-repository/redhat/updates/8.0/ /var/www/html/yum-repository/8.0\ updates/packages/ rsync: getaddrinfo: mirror.dulug 873: Name or service not known rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at clientserver.c(97) First one for the base worked...any ideas? Theresa