This is fixed on master, and will be in the next release. https://github.com/ewxrjk/rsbackup/commit/2faba794de0d08487d280d85870d294339a138f4 The change is also available on the 3.x branch. https://github.com/ewxrjk/rsbackup/tree/3.x I don't plan to make an upstream release just for this issue. ttfn/rjk