diff --git a/pages/common/rsync.md b/pages/common/rsync.md
index e9d72113c3..94f49986d8 100644
--- a/pages/common/rsync.md
+++ b/pages/common/rsync.md
@@ -12,9 +12,9 @@
 
 `rsync {{remote_host_name}}:{{remote_file_location}} {{local_file_location}}`
 
-- transfer file in archive and compress mode, it keeps attribute and reduces the size.
+- transfer file in archive (to preserve attributes) and compressed (zipped) mode
 
-`rsync -avz {{path_to_file}} {{remote_host_name}}:{{remote_host_location}}`
+`rsync -az {{path_to_file}} {{remote_host_name}}:{{remote_host_location}}`
 
 - transfer a directory and all its children from a remote to local