John,

Thanks for the information and clarification.  Having two seperate node
names, one for incremental and one for full backups had occured to me
and it may be a cleaner solution to the problem than mine.  It would
require alittle more administration overhead, however.

In either case, you would still need two seperate options files and a
way to "activate" the correct one when initiating a backup.  Therefore,
the two exec approach would still be a useful way of doing that.

Martha