Hi there, I found something which could probably be combined with Jukka's script into a cool ports backend: http://perlrsync.sourceforge.net/info.html It's an rsync-client implementation in Perl; there's a module called File::RsyncP::FileList which seems to contain the files to be synced, which could be used to generate a client-side .checkout file without any special settings/action (rsync-repgen) on the server. If this works, it would have really nice properties: - efficient (cpu, network load and hd space wise) - pure rsyncd on the server - output can be adjusted to mimick cvsup's If anyone has the time to verify my impression, that would be great :-). I'd rather delay the switch to a new backend if this proves to be the viable solution. Comments appreciated, Johannes