On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 07:32:24PM +0100, Dick Visser wrote: > You could work around it by disgarding the first X bytes when > checksumming. Any idea what X would be? I believe that by default the custom format is gzip'd, which also means you probably couldn't exclude just the timestamp. Though if you're using rsync, I think there's a good chance it would only tranfer the first few hundred KB... -- Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant jnasby@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Pervasive Software http://pervasive.com work: 512-231-6117 vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf cell: 512-569-9461