Hi, I use rsync and cron to mirror the /dev/sda array. Mounted into that array is removable media that should not be mirrored. I'm sure someone will see why $LABEL is not being excluded much quicker than I can. #!/bin/bash #mirror ~/clients, delete from destination anything that doesn't exist at source #do not mirror removable media; anything other than /dev/sda #kill with ctrl-c, --partial allows resuming of session #find scsi device labels for arg in `ls /dev/sd[b-d][1-16]` do echo `/sbin/dumpe2fs -h $arg |grep Filesystem\ volume\ name` > /home/studio/.bin/syncExclude done #use sed for character substitution LABELS=`cat /home/studio/.bin/syncExclude |sed 's/Filesystem volume name:\ //'` rsync --exclude=$LABELS --rsh=ssh --times --perms --owner --verbose --progress --compress --delete --recursive --stats --partial --temp-dir=/media/mirror/tmp --bwlimit=0 /home/studio/clients/ /media/mirror/clients Thanks, Ron __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
