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On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 12:06 +0100, Robin Cornelius wrote: > You could create a tarball of everything first. rsync should *do the > right thing* with a binary delta of the tarball and you should still > gain lots of transfer efficiency with the added benefit of your > filenames/perms being kept well away from FAT32. Thanks Robin I wanted to take things steadily. I did have instructions to make a tarball from some time ago when there was a discussion of rsync. So, I tried (in tmp) tar -cvvf docs.tar ~/Documents/ and created the file docs.tar successfully. (Does ~/ count as an absolute path? The tree in the tar file goes up to and includes home.) I also tried tar -cvvf home.tar home/ and this did not work, though it went through a huge number of files (what a lot of .thumbnails!). What is the correct script? Once I can do this, I can zip the file. Then I can rsync it to the usb disk. So you are saying that rsync will put the files together properly so it can recreate them, however many times I redo the tarball for my backup? James -- james kilty http://www.kilty.demon.co.uk -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html