I know it's a little low tech but FWIW I'm currently just using: rsync -avzH --delete \ --exclude=sites/Fermi --exclude=archive/debuginfo \ --exclude=archive/obsolete \ --include='/5[2-9x]/x86_64' \ --exclude='/*/*' \ rsync://rsync.scientificlinux.org/scientific/ scientific/ to grab just the x86_64 distros. Works for me... John