Hello list, Recently, i am using rsync to sync two directories which located in two different hosts. There is something unclearly to me. I digged in the web for a while, but there aren't useful things for me. Here is my puzzle: I want to sync one big directory from one host to a remote host. And there are several symbolic links which linked to some files and directories that outside the certain directory. I want to copy the symbolic links as real file or directory. For example: The host A: -rw-r--r-- 1 wangpenghui wangpenghui 0 2006-11-13 09:14 aa -rw-r--r-- 1 wangpenghui wangpenghui 0 2006-11-13 09:14 ab -rw-r--r-- 1 wangpenghui wangpenghui 0 2006-11-13 09:14 ac lrwxrwxrwx 1 wangpenghui wangpenghui 6 2006-11-13 09:14 ad -> /tmp/b After the syncing, The host B should looks like: -rw-r--r-- 1 wangpenghui wangpenghui 0 2006-11-13 09:14 aa -rw-r--r-- 1 wangpenghui wangpenghui 0 2006-11-13 09:14 ab -rw-r--r-- 1 wangpenghui wangpenghui 0 2006-11-13 09:14 ac drwxr-xr-x 1 wangpenghui wangpenghui 6 2006-11-13 09:14 ad The directory ad should be the real folder of the old /tmp/b I have tried some parameters of the command rsync. But no result too. Every response will be appreciated. Wang, -- Wang Penghui +86 592 8389 650