I was just going to enter the rsync text ('rsync -aWq /media/bmike1/RedSanDisk /home/bmike1/Documents') into a terminal ((I verified this goof only affects this user) when I realized I wasn't sure I had all of the nuances and I wanted to make sure I got it down right before I really screwed tings up. First: Here is the directory and file of the backup: bmike1@MikesBeast ~ $ ls /media/bmike1/RedSanDisk Documents Second: the rsync manpage talks about the trailing slash changing the behavior of the way it copies. I don't understand. 'rsync -aWuq --delete-before /home/bmike1/Documents /media/bmike1/RedSanDisk' seems to copy it the way I want. Does the slash affect the way it copies it back. Or else what does it do?