My Ubuntu came with "BackupPC" installed and running backing up /etc/. I created an /etc/rsyncd.conf entry and fixed /etc/backuppc/config.pl to use "rsyncd" format and had it making nice compressed rsync disk-based backups in no time. Smart program - it keeps checksums on all the files it backs up and doesn't save multiple copies of files with the same checksum, no matter what their names or meta-data. I currently have it configured to run it every 5 hours on my home directory. I'm experimenting with various --bwlimit=50 arguments to rsync to keep the real-time impact low. -- | Ian! D. Allen - idallen [ at ] idallen [ dot ] ca - Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | Home Page: http://idallen.com/ Contact Improv: http://contactimprov.ca/ | College professor (Open Source / Linux) via: http://teaching.idallen.com/ | Defend digital freedom: http://eff.org/ and have fun: http://fools.ca/