Alfred von Campe wrote: > 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 > Hi Alfred, Thanks for your reply. I'll do that and see what tomorrow morning brings :) -Ray