<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1452649527508_219568"><span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1452649527508_219570">></span>It'll take me a day or so to mull over all that should be done, cobble up a script that looks solid, and give it a try when the next multi-hour window of system inactivity opens</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1452649527508_219575" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1452649527508_219881" dir="ltr">Before you do that... take a look at rsnapshot.org It may save you a lot of time.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1452649527508_219882" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1452649527508_219884" dir="ltr">If you have nice friends, take a look at crashplan. You can use their backup software for free to backup to a friends computer (your files are encrypted on your friends computer so they can't read anything). Or, you could use crashplan to backup to another folder on your computer which happens to be on your secondary disk (also free).</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1452649527508_220540" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1452649527508_220539" dir="ltr">If you want to spend a small monthly fee you can also backup to their cloud (how they make their money).<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1452649527508_220140" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1452649527508_220390" dir="ltr">Craig<br></div></div></body></html>