> Yes to the above except I am backing up to a HD in a plastic > box that connects to a USB port. I use root even though man > rsync says you do not need to. I think you must and there are > no passwords. > > The problem with cp -a is you can't do a incremental backup. > Rsync is good at that. > > Might want to check out rsnapshot http://rsnapshot.org/ HTH