Thanks for the confirmation. I tried it when I got home last night and it did work. Now I just need to find a way to automate this command to run on each directory individually. I mean, tar and gzip Directory A to Volume B, then tar and gzip directory B to Volume B, then tar and gzip Directory C to Volume B and so on.... Is this a shell script thing? I have tried to understand the various options under tar or gzip but I don't see that sort of intelligence in the options....

TIA,

johnC