On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Andy wrote: > Should I just use cp or maybe tar? What do you all use for this kind > of simple backup? > > Thanks, > Andy I think we all forgot to answer the question. Take a look at smbtar smbtar -u username -p password -x share -t filename.tar and you can pipe it into gzip with -t - | gzip > filename.tar.gz if you want Mike