Fellows, I'm kind of fed up of all this backup software, due to several reason, i ll manage my backup with Tar. My problem is this one: Every night a 00:01 am my computer will do a backup of the folder which had been modified in the folder roger The command to look after those is : find /home/roger/ -mtime 1 -daystart I wanted to copy this files to an archive: find /home/roger/ -mtime 1 -daystart -exec tar -zxf '{}' ';' But i get an error which says : tar: /home/roger/work: cannot be read: is a directory with several other lines How can i manage this i want to back up every file but with the full path Exemple: home/roger/work/work1.txt If i uncompress the archive i ll will get home/roger/work/work1.txt not only work1.txt I wanted to do it with bz2 as well but i did n t get it neither find /home/roger/ -mtime 1 -daystart -exec tar cvf | bzip2 -9 > /backup/file_mod.tar.bz2 {} \; Thanks for your help -- Franck