Joseph L. Casale wrote: > 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? Check out HPN-SSH, I use it extensively to transfer files over ssh, it provides a null cipher which you can use to disable encryption of data, while still maintaining encryption of authentication credentials. http://www.psc.edu/networking/projects/hpn-ssh/ I transfer over a terrabyte of data a day using rsync+hpnssh. nate