> The problem is this one : > in fact rsync can't be used at its "best performances" because the databases > are already compressed. Thus the transmitted data to update a local version > is very high and could be much lower if using rsync with uncompressed > databases (by usind the rsync switch to compress data that is being > transmitted). One thing to be aware of is that many versions of rsync silently corrupt files when doing incremental updates on Large Files (>2Gig), or when the copy is being done cross architecture system. I'd checksum your rsynced files with freshly downloaded ones until you are happy it all works. Cheers, Guy Coates -- Guy Coates, Informatics System Group The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SA, UK Tel: +44 (0)1223 834244 ex 7199