I've been using rsnapshot and removal SATA disks for quite a while, and it works fine. We keep one drive at home, and one in the vault at the bank, in case a tornado/earthquake/zombie apocalypse happens our way. We swap the drives out fairly regularly so if worse comes to worse, we'd only lose some recent data. In between backups, I spin down the drives with this: HD=`/usr/bin/sg_map | /bin/grep sdc | /bin/awk '{print $1}'` /sbin/sdparm -C stop $HD (oS 12.2) My current exclude list is as follows, based on a lot of forum post reading and Googling: #exclude - /proc/* - /tmp/* - /backup/* - /dev/* - /sys/* - /mnt/* - lost+found/ - /.journal - /.fsck - /var/lib/named/proc/* - /var/lib/ntp/proc/* - /var/run/* - /var/tmp/* - /var/spool/* - /var/cache/* - /var/lock/* - /run/* and I run rsnapshot with the following arguments: rsync_short_args -rlptgDEvHhXAo rsync_long_args --delete --numeric-ids --relative --delete-excluded -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org