diff --git a/failover/rsync_xi.sh b/failover/rsync_xi.sh
index d950da1..8215182 100755
--- a/failover/rsync_xi.sh
+++ b/failover/rsync_xi.sh
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ mkdir -p $mydir
 
 
 do_rsync() {
-  echo rsync -avun --delete --delete-after $1 ${secondary}:${1}
+  rsync -avun --delete --delete-after $1 ${secondary}:${1}
 }
 
 do_rsync2() {
@@ -269,4 +269,4 @@ else
     exit 1;
 fi
 
-do_rsync2 $rootdir/$name.tar.gz
+do_rsync $rootdir/$name.tar.gz