Somebody in the thread at some point said: > # This is the rsync bash file for root > > rsync -avg /home/ /media/disk/ > > rsync -avg /etc /media/disk/ You can pile up all the source dirs in a single rsync, the last one is the destination rsync -avg \ /home \ /etc \ /other-things \ /media/disk Yep rsync is great for backup. -Andy