<html> <head> <style> .hmmessage P { margin:0px; padding:0px } body.hmmessage { font-size: 10pt; font-family:Verdana } </style> </head> <body class='hmmessage'> <pre>>> Any one facing same problem?.. ........ >You don't say quite what you're doing, but if you are just copying the >data (that is, there isn't a destination that is nearly the same), you >might not need to use rsync at all, but some other file copy utility >instead, such as scp (slow but secure and reliable). Umm, when I want >to copy a few GiB from a VM to the host, I now shut down the VM and >mount its root locally, and do a normal copy. yes i am doing also doing --delete and --exclude some directories from a list. Here is command i am using rsync -e ssh -l bkp-user -avR --delete --exclude-from=${EXCLUDES} @Tony as i mentioned earlier, i am using my host VM for heavy REMOTE backups so I cant shutdown/mount any of my REMOTE live box to take backup. I have taken very big backups in past on xen based VM's. Chocking Network due to heavy rsync is something amazing for me. Any other solution will be appreciated. Regards, Mateen </pre> <hr />Windows Live: Make it easier for your friends to see what you’re up to on Facebook. <a href='http://windowslive.com/Campaign/SocialNetworking?ocid=PID23285::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:SI_SB_facebook:082009' target='_new'>Find out more.</a></body> </html>