I want to have a backup of the hard drives of the computers in my house on the other computer. What I was doing before is making each ~ identical. Would the following command give me the desired effect? rsync -vva --exclude=/home/bmike1/Pictures/* --exclude=.*mozilla* --exclude=.*chromium* ~/* *xbmc@192.168.0.3:/home/xbmc/*backupdirectoryname*; rsync -vva --exclude=/home/bmike1/Pictures/* --exclude=.*mozilla* --exclude=.*chromium* xbmc@192.168.0.3:/home/xbmc/ *~/backupdirectoryname* * * is this correct? :-)~MIKE~(-: