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...my googling and archive searching but I still can't seem to 'get' it. Here goes: I've a spare drive in my CentOS5.1 box, which (for testing now) I mount manually under /mnt/backup I want to backup the /home tree to that box nightly via rsync (cronjob), so I tried this: rsync -avrogz /home/ /mnt/backup/ All goes well, but it seems that rsync is copying the files and compressing them into an archive....both the file structure and the archive exist. Is there a flag I'm missing, or is there a better, more efficient way to get this accomplished? Thanks in advance, -Ray