thx, steve,alan, joseph and anyone i forgot !
good pick up  ; i AM doing backups with names of the month, so it IS 
backing up everything each time since it is a different name. i 
understand that but was doing it because i was so paranoid that it would 
miss something ...  so i have two months backups on the ext hdd  - oct 
and august. usually when i do the next backup, i put in the new month 
and delete the  oldest one. but once again, it is backing up everything 
of course.

so, should i try to rename the october file then just always use that 
for backups. ? or should i just call everything october from now on, 
hehehe. fine with me, easy to remember.

yes, to the question, it is all ext3. randy larson taught us that in the 
one linux class i took in 2000 (?) to get started. he was so helpful 
that was one of the reason i totally got into using linux.  very nice, 
like the people on the plug list.

one thing he said, i think, was to do a 'cron' job for stuff to happen 
every so often. (?) is this something that would lend itself to that say 
every week or every month?
he taught us that unlike the evil m$ you don't have the computer asking 
you 'are you sure you want to do this' when you are in the command line, 
that is why i am always so careful (and fearful ). it's also why i don't 
do backups as often as i should because it takes me about 1/2 hr to v e 
r y  c a r e f u l l y check everything i write before i hit enter.

have a nice Christmas party, ummmm cheese cake !

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