* Russell Coker | I generally pipe tar through ssh though with: | tar cf - /usr /bin /sbin /etc /lib | ssh user@machine "cat > ~/output.tar" | | This works well as long as there is a moderate amount of CPU power available. and if you use -c blowfish you use a lot less cpu power as well. :) -- Tollef Fog Heen ,''`. UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are : :' : `. `' `-