On Wed, 25 Mar 2020, Leroy Tennison wrote: > Since you state that using -z is almost always a bad idea, could you > provide the rationale for that? I must be missing something. I can't speak to that, but the obvious workaround is to use ssh's compression instead of rsync's: rsync -av -e 'ssh -C' remotehost:remote.file local.file -- Paul Heinlein heinlein at madboa.com 45°38' N, 122°6' W