Thank you everyone for the clear advice. I'm still working out some details. One thing I was wondering about. It keep all my documents and everything I do within my /home/dave/ folder. It's nice when backing up to just be able to copy the one folder to disc and know I've got everything. If my local copy of my web sites is over in /var/www/html/ then that's another place I have to remember to back up. Sure, I could do it, but I thought there might be another approach. What if I make an "html" folder in my /home/dave/ folder, and then alias my /var/www/html folder to that? Would that be a bad thing? Would it be possible? Dave