diff --git a/failover/failover.sh b/failover/failover.sh
index 7f889be..f7b4060 100755
--- a/failover/failover.sh
+++ b/failover/failover.sh
@@ -69,10 +69,6 @@ do_primary() {
   [ $? -ne 0 ] && error "Cannot ping ${secondary}.  Use --noping to continue wihout ping." && exit
   verbose "Creating package to send to secondary"
   /home/nagios/bin/rsync_xi.sh --prepend ${syncname} --primary "${primary}" --secondary "${secondary}" $extraCmd
-  if [ -r "/usr/local/nagiosxi/html/includes/components/custom-includes/css/header-gradient.css.primary" -a -w "/usr/local/nagiosxi/html/includes/components/custom-includes/css/header-gradient.css" ]; then
-    verbose "Copying local gradient files"
-    cp /usr/local/nagiosxi/html/includes/components/custom-includes/css/header-gradient.css.primary /usr/local/nagiosxi/html/includes/components/custom-includes/css/header-gradient.css
-  fi
 }
 
 do_secondary() {
@@ -88,21 +84,20 @@ do_secondary() {
   fi
   verbose "Checking for package from the primary"
   syncfile=$(basename `ls -tr1 ${backupDir}/${syncname}* | tail -1`)
-  if [ -r "$syncfile" ]; then
-    verbose "  Sync file found (/store/backups/nagiosxi/$syncfile).  Continuing."
-    /home/nagios/bin/rsync_xi.sh --primary "${primary}" --secondary "${secondary}" --file "/store/backups/nagiosxi/$syncfile"
+  fullfile="/store/backups/nagiosxi/$syncfile"
+  if [ -f "$fullfile" ]; then
+    verbose "  Sync file found ($fullfile).  Continuing."
+    /home/nagios/bin/rsync_xi.sh --primary "${primary}" --secondary "${secondary}" --file "$fullfile"
   else
     warning "  No sync file found.  Continuing to activate Nagios."
   fi
-  [ -z "$syncfile" ] && error "No sync file ($syncfile) found." && exit 2
   if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
-    sleep 2
     chmod 0640 /usr/local/nagiosxi/var/keys/xi.key
     chown nagios:nagios /usr/local/nagiosxi/var/keys/xi.key
     verbose "This is intended to be manually executed when needed, so we assume you want to start Nagios..." -n
-    sleep 2
+    sleep 5
     start_nagios
-    rm -f ${syncfile}
+    rm -f ${fullfile}
     verbose "Done."
   fi
 }
diff --git a/failover/rsync_xi.sh b/failover/rsync_xi.sh
index 2533d1f..43cc9bd 100755
--- a/failover/rsync_xi.sh
+++ b/failover/rsync_xi.sh
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ execute="-n"
 syncfile=""
 isP=/bin/false
 isS=/bin/false
-rsync_opts="-a --delete --delete-after --rsync-path=\"sudo /bin/rsync\" --exclude=/usr/local/nagiosxi/html/includes/components/custom-includes/css/header-gradient.css"
+rsync_opts="-a --delete --delete-after"
 
 # Import Nagios XI and xi-sys.cfg config vars
 . $BASEDIR/../var/xi-sys.cfg
@@ -118,11 +118,12 @@ workDir=$rootdir/$name
 mkdir -p $workDir
 
 do_rsync() {
-  verbose "Syncing $*..."
+  verbose "Syncing $1 (Excluding ${2:-nothing})..."
   src="$1"
+  [ -n "$2" ] && exclude="--exclude $2" || exclude=""
   [ ! -e "$src" ] && warning "  OK: No such file or directory: $src" && return
-  [ -d "$src" ] && sudo rsync ${rsync_opts} ${execute} ${src}/ nagios@${sName}:${src}/
-  [ -f "$src" ] && sudo rsync ${rsync_opts} ${execute} ${src} nagios@${sName}:${src}
+  [ -d "$src" ] && sudo /usr/bin/rsync --rsync-path="sudo /bin/rsync" ${rsync_opts} ${exclude} ${execute} ${src}/ nagios@${sName}:${src}/
+  [ -f "$src" ] && sudo /usr/bin/rsync --rsync-path="sudo /bin/rsync" ${rsync_opts} ${exclude} ${execute} ${src} nagios@${sName}:${src}
 }
 
 do_backup_files() {
@@ -151,7 +152,7 @@ do_rsync $httpdconfdir/nrdp.conf
 do_rsync $httpdconfdir/ssl.conf
 do_rsync /usr/local/nagios
 do_rsync /usr/local/nagiosmobile
-do_rsync /usr/local/nagiosxi
+do_rsync /usr/local/nagiosxi custom-includes/css/
 do_rsync /usr/local/nagvis
 do_rsync /usr/local/nrdp
 do_rsync /usr/share/snmp