b.j. mcclure wrote: > I know I'm going to be embarrassed by the answer to this one but I've > checked a couple rsync and ssh references, including man rsync, and do > not find an option -H. What is it? Looks like -H, --hard-links preserve hard links In my experience hard links aren't very common, symlinks on the other hand are very common, and probably the type of link you were encountering. nate