Nathan Moore wrote: > Hello all, > > I have a small cluster of SL 4.4 machines with common NIS logins and NFS > shared home directories. In the short term, I'd rather not buy a tape > drive for backups. Instead, I've got a jury-rigged backup scheme. The > node that serves the home directories with NFS runs a nightly tar job > (through cron), Nathan, you might like to look at dirvish to do this sort of disk-based backup. http://www.dirvish.org -- John Hearns Senior HPC Engineer Streamline Computing, The Innovation Centre, Warwick Technology Park, Gallows Hill, Warwick CV34 6UW Office: 01926 623130 Mobile: 07841 231235