[[!comment format=mdwn username="joey" subject="""comment 1""" date="2015-07-30T17:18:24Z" content=""" The -J1 is a red herring; there's no progress output for -J modes, so the whole transfer runs quietly there. The -J2 failure is because the rsync special remote implementation uses a local scratch directory which is supposed to be empty. But, since it uses the pid of the process to create the directory name, concurrently transfers will use the same scratch directory and so interfere with one-another. """]]