A> If all of this is on your LAN and you are behind a firewall and your A> machines are fairly well locked down, then one faster option would be A> to set up nfs mounts to or from your machines and use that instead I think rsync/ssh is the better/more secure way because all the machines are "sharp" webservers. Or I'am wrong with this opinion? What about starting nfs with a cron job, backing up and shutting down nfs again? -- Jochen Kächelin mailto:pippiuser@xxxxxxxx