Really good observation. All the settings are from a long time ago when link quality was way worse than what we get these days. I should review those options,

Really good observation. All the settings are from a long time ago when link quality was way worse than what we get these days. I should review those options, definitely. > -C, --cvs-exclude auto-ignore files in the same way CVS does Just goes to show you how long I've been using this stuff :-) The additional options may not be relevant now that I am just deploying creating a new target directory each time.