On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 10:45:23AM +0000, Stroller wrote: : : I rather like the idea of saving the backup as a tarball - I think : `tar` should handle things automagically. From `man tar`: [...] AFAIK, tar does not save resource forks or any Mac-only metadata. -- Eugene Lee http://www.coxar.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/