I'be brought up my backup script for discussion before, and folks where helpful in solving a problem, but the solution created another. Now all files backed up have their ownerships changed to me, brownh:brownh.
Here's the old script, which had the problem that output was going to a mail message that quickly exceeded system limits, and then caused the backup process to terminate: find / -print | egrep -v "^/media|^/proc|^/sys|^/mnt" | cpio -pdmuv /media/mirror/"$dirName" > 2>&1 | cat -vt Here's the new script which only sends an error message: find / -print | egrep -v "^/media|^/proc|^/sys" | cpio -pdmuv /media/mirror/"$dirName" 2>&1 | cat -vT >/home/brownh/.backup.log However, it seems to convert ownership of all files backed up to brownh:brownh. -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]