These are all great suggestions! My current root-use-avoidance plans were to tar up each filesystem locally into a tarball owned by some special "backup" user, then rsync the tarball to another machine (rather than rsyncing the filesystem itself).
The Mike Rubel page that Clive Menzies mentioned is a real gem! http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/ Ed -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
