Do you want a backup, or a mirror? If you want a backup, then you will never have to expand that data--it is just there in case something goes seriously wrong on Shellworld. If they are running Linux, then they have tar. If they are running Linux, then they have gzip. As for bzip2, that may be questionable, but if you have shell access, you could always just check. On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Karen Lewellen wrote: > I have not been given a site where I can compare distributions with each
