> man find > man cpio > man gzip > > you can do it with tar, but imho cpio is _far_ more convenient.
I would disagree. ;) cd /home tar -czf /tmp/backup.tar.gz */Maildir Instead of the asterisk you can use a shell glob pattern to restrict to certain users. Tar is always recursive and "hidden" is irrelevant. If you're pressed for space, use bzip2 instead of gzip (change z to j). bzip2's compresion rates are much better, but its CPU times can be enormous. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
