Thanks guys. I thought it had to do something with the $() and date formats but wasn't quite sure. I used a program called keep which is really nice and easy and all gui for KDE but it hosed my whole usb partition and set up its own file structure and I don't know if it was full backups or just incrementals.. VP On Dec 11, 2007 5:33 AM, gm5729 wrote: > I am looking at trying to set up a cron job to do automatic backups of > > VampirePenguin > --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss