Over many weeks/months I have bothered the list with queries about fscks and its fellows. It was all to prevent data loss before I get a backup script up an running. I have decided that the easiest way to backup is with a copy of the affected material onto another harddrive. I have a secondary drive(HDD) installed that I have used for copying odds and sods of unimportant information. I have approx 5Gb free on the drive that I can use for backup space. I would like to invoke the script by clicking on an icon(Link to application ?) in KDE, whilst signed on as a normal user. Assuming a partition fails and I end up installing another drive and reinstalling, I should just be able to restore the relevant files off my backup onto the new partitions ie: # cp -a /data4/home /dev/<new hdd partition> My partitioned SuSE drive is HDB and the secondary copy or backup of the important data and config files will be on HDD. Below I have pasted a copy of what I think I need to do on the script as well as the command I expect to be the one I will need to use. The backup drive has a listing in /etc/fstab of: /dev/hdd1 /data4 auto noauto,user 0 2 I would appreciate any input, especially since this is my FIRST script. ****Paste of future backup script********** #!/bin/bash # Sign on as root Unknown cmd # Mount HDD1 mount /dev/hdd1 /data4 # Remove old backup image rm -dr /data4/ # Copy certain directories to HDD and PRESERVe permissions cp -a /home /data4/home cp -a /etc /data4/etc # unmount HDD1 umount /dev/hdd1 #sign off and shutdown shutdown -h now ****************End**************************** -- ======================================================================== Hylton Conacher - Linux user # 229959 at http://counter.li.org Currently using SuSE 9.0 Professional with KDE 3.1 ========================================================================