On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:39:01 +0100, Geralt wrote: > If it's just for data, I'm making a daily backup on a flash disk using > rsync and from time to time a backup on an external hdd drive using > again rsync. If you tar it up, you can't store the differences only > anymore, so you have to decide first what you want. You can store differences within files, but tar is quite capable of making incremental backups. -- Neil Bothwick Celery is not food. It is a member of the plywood family.