Sorry "WipeOut" for starting a new thread, but I don't have the original mail anymore. > I want to have a seperate directory created each day with the backed > up files in.. Also I want files that have not changed to be symlinked > to the previous version of the file so that I don't need ten times the > disk space of the original source on the backup system and don't have > to transfer the entire file set over the network to the backup system > only the changed files.. LinuxJournal this month mentions www.rsnapshot.org: "...als makes use of hard links for storage, so the same file isn't stored twice but hard linked...Requires: Perl, rsync, and SSH" -- William Hooper