diff --git a/Snakefile b/Snakefile
index 0c9de136f7ed5b4bd1815a6ef12a4b93dafcc6a9..76e03ec908efc11da6fa260b1dac2312ca27e5d8 100644
--- a/Snakefile
+++ b/Snakefile
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ rule fetch_epic:
         filepath="EPIC/{PATH}"
     retries: 3
     shell: """
-xrdcp root://dtn-eic.jlab.org//work/eic2/{output.filepath} {output.filepath}
+xrdcp --debug 2 root://dtn-eic.jlab.org//work/eic2/{output.filepath} {output.filepath}
 """ if use_xrootd else """
 mc cp S3/eictest/{output.filepath} {output.filepath}
 """ if use_s3 else f"""