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...tance would be greatly appreciated. I'm running a nightly backup of my photo/home video directory from a partition BIGPIX on a firewire drive on one machine (G3 running OSX 10.3, imaginatively named g3) to another (Pix) on a firewire drive on my laptop (G4 running 10.4, even more imaginatively bobsmac). I'll include the script below. All are HFS+ partitions. The problem is, that every night, something like 3/4 of the whole directory gets updated. This doesn't reflect reality - in fact, I only add stuff to the directory once a week or so. If the whole of the directory was getting updated...