Hi. There are a backup softwae called vbackup (down by name colision) that makes: Full backup: create new date directory with a full copy of all files and directories Next backups: create a new date directory with for each file/directory: a hard link for each file/dir unchanged fromlast date directory a new full file for all file/dir changed yes, all date directories must stay on same file system. Maybe these are good todo for rsync & backup solution... []s agsb -- Alvaro Gomes Sobral Barcellos | Mail: agsb@bdep.gov.br Senior Technical Consultant | Phone: 55 21 3981-0133 BDEP/ANP - Agencia Nacional de Petroleo | Fax : 55 21 2244-0139 8718170d-61b5-e4ee-d7e1-d65205d935a8