brian, there are many solutions if you like ssh and rsync etc, then... taking this solution and modify it a little and it works great http://www.jms1.net/code/rsync-backup.shtml one, you can backup the machine(s) to another system with large space two, once machine(s) backed up, then you can mod the script to do proper excludes and then rsync the remote 5.6 to the local 5.6 again, proper use of excludes in the script is necessary and then when getting ready to do final pull, you have to modify the local space to write to so it doesnt go into a backup directory, but to where it need to go on the new server - rh -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20110905/e56b12aa/attachment-0004.html>