Hi Y'all, As part of an HA(High Availability) project we working on; we want to mirror all the data on both machine. One thing I am very scared of, is going crazy w/wildcards. ...gotta stay away from hardware specific config files etc. It seems like all the hardware config should be, and probably are in different locations inside /etc/. Thing of it is, Practically all config files are in /etc/ . For instance you would not want to mirror /etc/X11 but you would want to mirror /etc/httpd and how bout /etc/sysconfig...even the name is scary for soemthing like this...you would not want to mirror /etc/sysconfig/kudzu but you would want to mirror /etc/sysconfig/named. this is crazy. I really could use some talk about this. maybe I am over-reacting on this. I really dunno. The way I see it, the only really major subdirs that should really be mirrored are MOST of /etc and ALL of /var and /home. Bits and pieces of say, don't ask me why there but I keep all my own scripts in /usr/local/sbin. ok dealing w/video, sound, nic cards, Hds, cd/dvd/rw, motherboard, processor, memory...anything concerning hardware thx in advance y'all John Rose -- ...and I woke up 2 days later in the back yard talking to Elvis!