diff --git a/scripts/lib/mkcloud-driver-libvirt.sh b/scripts/lib/mkcloud-driver-libvirt.sh
index f45ac76788..87383bf8b0 100644
--- a/scripts/lib/mkcloud-driver-libvirt.sh
+++ b/scripts/lib/mkcloud-driver-libvirt.sh
@@ -385,7 +385,7 @@ function libvirt_do_onhost_deploy_image()
     if [[ ! $want_cached_images = 1 ]] ; then
         [ -n $rsyncserver_fqdn ] || complain 95 "Missing RSYNC Server FQDN!"
 
-        safely rsync --compress --progress --inplace --archive --verbose \
+        safely rsync --progress --archive --verbose \
             rsync://$rsyncserver_fqdn/$rsyncserver_images_dir/$image $cache_dir/
     else
         # In this case the image has to be supplied by other means than
diff --git a/scripts/mkcloud b/scripts/mkcloud
index ef45fcece1..d372473113 100755
--- a/scripts/mkcloud
+++ b/scripts/mkcloud
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ if [[ $debug_mkcloud = 1 ]] ; then
     PS4='+(${BASH_SOURCE##*/}:${LINENO}) ${FUNCNAME[0]:+${FUNCNAME[0]}(): }'
 fi
 
-cache_dir_default=/var/cache/mkcloud/$cloud
+cache_dir_default=/var/cache/mkcloud
 [[ $UID != 0 ]] && cache_dir_default="${XDG_CACHE_HOME:-./cache}/mkcloud"
 : ${cache_dir:=$cache_dir_default}
 mkdir -p "$cache_dir"