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If you do it all at once, at least. I have "live" mirroring of my disks - all disk writes are mirrored over the net in real time to images on a big backup drive on another machine. (Or near-real-time, if the writer is producing data faster than the mirroring can deal with it - the software goes to some lengths to handle that case well.) It doesn't cause load problems in normal use because the network load it imposes is spread out throughout the day, becoming visible only when doing a data transfer over the net to disk from a source that can run the network at least half-wide-open. (Yes, I know it's not a comprehensive backup solution. It doesn't deal with "oops, I didn't mean to delete that file", or "now what was in this file last May?", but it's not intended to; it's designed to defend against "this disk spindle just went casters-up", and it does that very well. I've had two disk deaths since I started doing it, and it did its job perfectly each time.) /~\ The ASCII der Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mouse(a)rodents.montreal.qc.ca / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B