rsync deletes stats on mirror

Hi there I have a funny problem on my php mirror li.php.net. I have moved the mirror to a new machine, when I run rsync the stats directory and all the files in it are gone -> see the rsync log extract below deleting stats/webalizer.hist deleting stats/webalizer.current deleting stats/usage_200308.php deleting stats/usage_200307.php deleting stats/usage.png deleting stats/php.conf deleting stats/hourly_usage_200308.png deleting stats/hourly_usage_200307.png deleting stats/daily_usage_200308.png deleting stats/daily_usage_200307.png deleting stats/ctry_usage_200308.png deleting stats/ctry_usage_200307.png anyone an idea why this happend... thanks Roland