Hi all, I'm wanting to make weekly backups of host qin to host elijah. I set a crontab to run a script that effectually executes this rsync command: rsync -ave ssh --exclude-from=excludes.txt --delete / elijah:/home/backup/qin host qin is running gentoo linux with rsync version 2.5.6. host elijah is running debian linux (stable) with rsync version 2.5.7. the excludes.txt file looks like this: + /proc/ - /proc/* + /dev/shm/ - /dev/shm/* + /tmp/ + /mnt/ + /cdrom/ - **/tmp/* I pieced this together from bits I read in different emails in the list archives. Basically, I want to have a fully functional system should host qin suffer complete system failure by moving the entire directory structure back to a hard drive on qin. Since I'm new to rsync, can somebody tell me if I'm doing this right? I'd hate to find out that I wasn't making proper backups after the fact. -Ryan