On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Chris <cpuburner at gmail.com> wrote: > I apologize for the lack of detail. The command I'm using is: > ( cd /usr/local/etc/transmission/home/Downloads/ ; tar cf - . ) | ( cd > /mnt/usb ; tar xf - ) Show, don't tell. What does tar report when you run it?