rsync -v -v -a -r -e -p -g --delete -e ssh $cfg->{mt_home} $cfg->{remote_login}:$cfg->{remote_path} While not exactly "upstreaming", the effect is the same and has the added advantage of not sending your password in cleartext. In fairness, this scenario breaks if you don't have a shell login. I thought that there were hooks for doing uploads via Net::(FTP|SCP) but apparently not. Okay, so instead of executing rsync, the next best thing would be modify the publish hooks to publish to a copy of MT running on the remote server via the XML-RPC interface. An interesting project for the stack. An off-shoot of that would be to set up an interface to automagically slurp any changes from the remote server when you log in from your home/private machine. Which would allow you to continue to update your weblog from the laundromat; you know, if you're into that kind of thing. Meanwhile, MT 2.1 has been released and supports the metaWeblog API. I will update Blogger.pm accordingly. Here's me, digressing...