Hi Everyone, I was looking at some examples on writing a back up script and they are written in shell script. Now I'm wondering what would be better PERL or Shell scripting for doing stuff like writing a backup script that might stop MySql, make a copy (dump?) , tar it and maybe move the tarball or place it on another server? As you might have gathered from my last couple of questions I am not a sys admin.  I'm a programmer and am responsible for several servers, so I guess I need to break down and learn a few more skills. Thanks in advance for your insight, advice, and help! ------------------------ Keith Smith