I finally got rsync working. It seems that it didn't like --progress and
--compress-level=5. Or maybe something else... the quotes?

worked:
rsync -aWuq --delete-before /home/bmike1/Documents /media/bmike1/USB\ DISK/

not work:
rsync -aWq --progress --delete-before --compress-level=5
/home/bmike1/Documents /media/bmike1/"USB DISK"/
rsync -aWuq --progress --delete-before --compress-level=5
/home/bmike1/Documents /media/bmike1/USB\ DISK/


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