Yeah, that's basically it.

Omigod! If it was always that easy, why didn't somebody bang me over the head and tell me?

No doubt there have been posts on the bbs about this in the past, but I only recently began exploring the mysteries of ftp, so those posts wouldn't have registered with me.

If I do this, will I really, truly, end up with a mirrored structure that I can just ftp back into my empeg with a new hard drive installed and there will be no way to tell that I changed out the drive?

[run] Heads for the computer shop to buy a network card for his PC [/run]

tanstaafl.