On Apr 7, 2008, at 13:07, Ray Leventhal wrote: > I want to backup the /home tree to that box nightly via rsync > (cronjob), so I tried this: > > rsync -avrogz /home/ /mnt/backup/ First, drop "rog" from the options, as they are implied with -a. Also, since you are not going over a (potentially slow) network, drop the "z" as well, leaving you with just "rsync -av". Alfred