Hello all, while this isn't exactly speekup related, I am trying to figure out how to do this correctly, without having a sudden problem. I will be booting with a debian CD-Rom, in orderto tar up my Gentoo-environment. Now: Here is the issue. I wish to tar it directly to a remote computer, via an ssh-incripted session. I am attempting here to tar the entire slash, file system. And force that tarball to end up somewhere else. The file will be probably over 4 gigs, unless it can be compressed. Any suggestions on the best tar-compression, and what exactly is the command-syntax needed to have my goal met? Thanks a lot all. Happy new year, regards --Keith website: www.KeithNet.DynDNS.org Skype: skypedude1234 MSN Messenger: keithint37 at hotmail.com Primary email address-if you wish to email me off list is: Keithint38 at CommSpeed.net