[plug] Ambiguous redirection error

[Richard]

> Try rsync, whether it's across systems (backup on a different machine) or
> to the same machine it'll probably be faster than your method or tar.
>
> example:
>
>     /usr/bin/rsync -vaurR --delete /dir1 /dir2
>
> # -u = update only (don't overwrite newer files)
> # -r = recursive
> # -R = relative (relative to the remDir in our case)
> # --delete = delete files that don't exist (good here because we're making
> #            backups that won't be touched).
>
> This will copy dir1 to dir2 recursively, ie: all files, all subdirectories.

I think I've got the email part pretty well worked out now(thanks to the 
great local lug community :), but I will have a look at rsync. Thanks.
Richard