After examining the man rsync page, I am still a bit unclear about the use of the utility for my purpose. I intend to use it to between two local partitions that are mounted to /mnt, backing up an entire directory tree, so that the instruction would be: rsync -avr /mnt/original /mnt/backup and restoration of the backup to its original place would be the same, only exchanging the names of the directories. What is not clear to me is how to handle compression. For backing up: rsync -avzr /mnt/original /mnt/backup But I have not understood how to undo the compression in the event I need to restore the backup. I'm sure that must be in the man page, buried among some things I don't really understand, but I can't find it. -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org