Wayne: When I run this command on my Windows machine: echo hi | ssh root@marketing.propfinancing.com cat I get back: hi When I run this command: rsync --debug=ALL --msgs2stderr -M--msgs2stderr root@marketing.propfinancing.com:/var/www/svnDumps /cygdrive/c/Tmp I get this output: opening connection using: ssh -l root marketing.propfinancing.com rsync --server --sender -e.LsfxCIvu --msgs2stderr --msgs2stderr . /var/www/svnDumps (12 args) rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [sender] rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(226) [sender=3.1.3] rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [Receiver] rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(228) [Receiver=3.2.4dev] [Receiver] _exit_cleanup(code=12, file=io.c, line=228): about to call exit(12) I put the rsync-debug script in /tmp on the server and then ran this command on my Windows machine: rsync -av --rsync-path=/tmp/rsync-debug root@marketing.propfinancing.com:/var/www/svnDumps /cygdrive/c/Tmp I got the same output on my local machine. On the server, I got a /tmp/rsync-3191.out file which I am attaching here. I can't make sense of what it is trying to tell me. Thank you, Neil -- Neil Aggarwal, (972) 834-1565, http://www.propfinancing.com We offer 30 year loans on single family houses!