On 01/18/2013 01:59 AM, M. Fioretti wrote: > even if all the "rsyncing" needed would be something equivalent to "mv > holidays_2013 family_holidays_2013" on the remote server. Is it > possible to tell rsync to behave in that way? No, which is why some people use Mercurial or git to keep data in sync in multiple places. It's not very space efficient, but can be more network efficient than rsync in transferring changes and renames.