On Mar 4 18:35, Phil Betts wrote: > I had this problem ages ago. My solution was to run two backups. > One uncompressed including only files globbing *.gz, *.t[bg]z, *.[zZ], > *.bz2, *.zip etc, and one for the remainder which was piped > through gzip. I guess that's the way to go in the long run. Corinna