Jeff -- thank you so much for this information, this is great!!! I'm the original poster, and have still never gotten around to looking into it. I'm excited to hear both the fix for my version, and that 2.1.6 holds some improvements that I have to look forward to!!1

Thanks again,

MikeM

>    It looks like the backup.pl script has been modified in 2.1.6 and  goes

> about "rotation" in a different manner. However, I'm still using  2.0.4

> and I have the same problem you describe.

>

>    I looked into it (didn't need all those backups filling up the 

> partition) in a bit more detail and the issue isn't the time part of  the

> date stamp. The issue is that there is an error in the variable  used for

> the backup directory. Line 132/133 currently reference  Opts{'b'} when in

> fact they should reference Opts{'d'}. Make that  simple change to

> backup.pl and the rotation feature will work properly.

Mike Morris

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