i was wondering if the unix gurus on this list could help me out with a script i'm trying to create. the script will be used as a "pre" script for bru so only full backup stage files (which are over 150g in size) are upstaged (moved to tape) while incremental stage files are moved to a folder where bru will not try to put them on tape. 1. search /Users/Shared/Staging directory for files that are under 100g in size and over 24hrs old 2. move the files to /Users/Shared/Incrementals i thought the script should look something like this: find /Users/Shared/Staging/. -type f -atime +1 -size -100000000k -exec mv {} /Users/Shared/Incrementals/. \; ...how does this look? thanks for sharing your knowledge. :) don -- don montalvo, nyc curmudgeon at large