Hi guys: I'm about to migrate a sever to a managed server facility. I've alwau=ys used tape to backup my server, now that's not an option. I've read abut using rsync to do backups and have several scripts to do same. I believe rsync is a good solution. I am missing some important nuiances though... I would like to have essentially a "mirror" server at my facility ( call it "master") that I can backup to, and from, completely from the other server (call it "hosted"). Obviously I have to have at least different IP addresses on "master" and "hosted", but other than that, I'd like them to be mirrors of each other. I would like to do all my configs, setup, etc. at my leisure on "master", where I have hands on control, then when ready, have "hosted" setup with a basic Centos server install, then configure it to rsync to my "master" and update the entire thing (updates and all) to my "master". 1. Which files tdo I need to exclude to avoid IP address and hostname changes? 2. What caveats do I need to be aware of? Are there other files such as 'live" libraries that I cannot sync to? 3. The "master" server at my facility and their server may have different hard drive architecture (i.e. IDS and SCSI drives, different processor, etc.). As long as I use a generic Kernel (i.e. stock) that supposts the hardware on both, this shoudl not be a problem, right? 4. Am I missing something, is there a better way? Thanks, Scott