Thank you both for your help :)

Les are you saying that with rsync the full backup does not transfer files that 
match exsisting via checksum in previous backups? This could be quite usefull 
for us.

Our zips are scriped to be incremental mid week and of course a full copy at 
the weekends, its the only way we can manage the huge amounts of data. Its also 
very convinient to copy the zip file across the local network (Our backuppc 
server is for offsite backups so has serious bandwith limitations if we have to 
do a full restore remotley)

If this was your network how would you manage it? Have the scripts zip up our 
data and make copies on the network. As well as having backup pc running via 
rsync with compression for each of the appropriate folders. I take it rsync 
compresses before it sends?

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