I've just released Version 2.11 of rlbackup: http://www.math.ualberta.ca/imaging/rlbackup/ which provides a simple secure rsync-based mechanism for generating and recovering linked backups over the network, with historical pruning. Here are the main recent changes: Tue Jan 28 2004 Version 2.11 <bowman@math.ualberta.ca> The read-only filesystems are now associated with a single loopback device (specified by LOODEV in Makefile) and are no longer written to /etc/mtab. BINFS has been renamed /usr/local/bin/rlbackup.ext2 rlbackup now uses flock to wait for any outstanding rlrecover or rlbackup processes before proceeding (instead of simply failing). Tue Jan 20 2004 Version 2.10 <bowman@math.ualberta.ca> Ignore new exit code 24 from rsync version 2.6.0 (due to vanished source files). -- John Bowman University of Alberta