diff --git a/buildcore.sh b/buildcore.sh
index 8ab606fd7..e10a2cf57 100755
--- a/buildcore.sh
+++ b/buildcore.sh
@@ -203,6 +203,7 @@ if [ "$REL" = "devel" -a "$1" != "promote" ]; then
 	rm -rf opt
 	rpm2cpio ../$CORE/xCAT-client-*.noarch.rpm | cpio -id '*.html'
 	rpm2cpio ../$CORE/perl-xCAT-*.noarch.rpm | cpio -id '*.html'
-	scp -r opt/xcat/share/doc/man1 opt/xcat/share/doc/man3 opt/xcat/share/doc/man5 opt/xcat/share/doc/man7 opt/xcat/share/doc/man8 $UPLOADUSER,xcat@web.sourceforge.net:htdocs/
+	# Note: for some reason scp kept getting "Connection reset by peer" part way thru
+	rsync -rv opt/xcat/share/doc/man1 opt/xcat/share/doc/man3 opt/xcat/share/doc/man5 opt/xcat/share/doc/man7 opt/xcat/share/doc/man8 $UPLOADUSER,xcat@web.sourceforge.net:htdocs/
 	cd ..
 fi