Attached is a perl-based re-implementation of backup.sh, which should in theory run on every platform that OTRS itself runs on. Features include: - command-line compatible with backup.sh - fixes a nasty date-related problem with removing old backups (now uses Date::Pcalc) - Additional options and switches to customize operation, including database-dumper/archiver/compression programs to use, as well as command-lines - a --help switch to display a summary - both long and short option switches so command-lines can be self-documenting - ability to specify the number of days of backups to keep - uses Config.pm directly for pulling additional configuration information It will require a few additional perl modules (not attached) that I just threw into ~otrs/Kernel/cpan-lib/. They are File::Which, File::NCopy, and File::Remove, all of which are just single .pm files. Alas, only tested under Linux currently, but if you have command-line DB dumpers, archivers (ie, zip, rar, etc), and compressors (ie, zip, bzip2, gzip, etc) for other OSes, you should be able to just specify them on the command-line to test the script. -- E. Michael A. Gurski AMTI, Inc. http://www.amti.com/