Rsync Notes Intro - Rsync is a powerful tool for copying and keeping file trees synchronized. Notes - rsynch will delete to keep source and destination in synch. just need to use the --delete flag. May be possible to run rsync on the Windows 2000 machine as a server. http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/nt.html Can run rsyncd as a daemon. Here's how. http://perso.club-internet.fr/ffaure/rsync.html Daemon script seems to be part of Can use rsync for backups. Install it through YaST2. References http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/ Documents under SuSE in /usr/share/doc/packages/rsync