Jordi Espasa Clofent wrote: > ¿Are you sure that it's actually the main reason of this behavior? > ¿Is the rsync script exactly the same when it worked fine? yes. it works sometimes, it fails other times. right now its failing mostly. #!/bin/sh rsync -azH --delete --exclude=ia64 --exclude=s390\* --exclude=alpha \ --exclude=centos/2\* --exclude=centos/3.1 --exclude=centos/3.2 --exclude=centos/3.3 \ --exclude=centos/3.4 --exclude=centos/3.5 --exclude=centos/3.6 --exclude=centos/3.7 \ --exclude=centos/4.1 --exclude=centos/4.2 --exclude=centos/4.3 \ altruistic.lbl.gov::mirrors/centos /zdata/mirror since it started failing mostly, i've tried several different nearby mirrors (stanford, kernel.org, lbl.gov, etc).