what services must run on a machine which I wan't to backup with rsync tunneling through ssh? Do I need rsyncd running on this machine? When I backup my RedHats everything works fine but when I try to backup a SuSE 7.2 I get an error! Something like "...bytes do not match...."! I have no access to this machine at the moment so I can't remember the error message in detail. Maybe there's a problem with different ssh versions? I use the following: rsync -avz -e ssh user@xxxx:/path/to/backup/* /backup/ -- Jochen Kaechelin mailto:pippiuser@xxxxxxxx