>I didn't think unison was maintained any more - and I wouldn't expect >anything to beat rsync with the -z option on a slow link. I'd just use >the -P option and restart it when/if it fails. It wouldn't hurt to do >subsets first since they will be quickly skipped when you repeat from >the root. If you have a huge number of files it might be worth finding >a way to update rsync to a 3.x version which will not need to xfer the >entire directory listing before starting. Looks like rf has 3.0.7, thanks for that tip. Frankly, I abhor the thought of even using rsync for this, it's over a vpn so there is absolutely no need for encryption but I don't know another tool that can transfer diffs only? Thanks guys, jlc