Hello there, recently, I've written a helper script that I use with my rsync-based backups. Here's the abstract: | The dsnapshot script provides a high-level interface to the Linux | Logical Volume Manager. It uses its block-level snapshot support to | create directory snapshots. In contrast to block-level snapshots, | directory snapshots resemble the file system layer. Thus, you can | snapshot any directory that is on a logical volume and you don?t have to | worry about the actual logical volumes, mount points and paths. And this is the actual syntax for creating... | $ dsnapshot --create /srv/mysql/test/ | /var/lib/dsnapshot/srv-fdf2e6dc/mysql/test/ ... and removing a directory snapshot | $ dsnapshot --remove /var/lib/dsnapshot/srv-fdf2e6dc/mysql/test/ I've found it very handy when you need to backup partial directories and not the whole volume. Some people use it to backup the disk images of running virtual machines, I use it with mailstores and small databases. The script can be found here [ http://benjamin-schweizer.de/files/dsnapshot/ ] and an introduction there [ http://benjamin-schweizer.de/dsnapshot.html ]. If you like it and find it useful, I'd like to see it in the /contrib directory. Greetings Benjamin -- http://benjamin-schweizer.de/contact