On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 13:35, Dave wrote: > I'm waning to .tar file onto a second "backup harddrive", via a daily cron > job, and archive to CD every couple of weeks
If you don't need to compress the data, forget about tar and just use rsync to duplicate the target filesystem. It'll be quicker and easier to restore from, which after all is the whole point of backups. -jim
