I have an external USB that I backup to. Rsync uses a bunch of memory in the process. So I thought I would build the file list and output that to a file then let rsync read the file names from a file list (hopefully not taking TONS of memory)... I do the command: rsync --only-write-batch=rsync_file_list -a /home ./rsync_file_list.sh . seems good and some files do copy. however I get a bunch of messages like: (No batched update for "home/jerry/signisam.nx") and then this file is not copied. Why is that and how can I get it to copy. This all works fine when I execute "rsync -a /home ." as I normally do. Thanks Jerry