This functionality is already in displayserver.

Call me a wimp and a weenie... but I don't want to deal with the hassles involved with a non-standard kernal.

I'm not sure, but I think displayserver does not save the database file. Correct me if I'm wrong, please.

Also, displayserver requires some hoop jumping -- export to a csv file, use that as an "index" for retrieving the song files, something like that. I just want to hook up my USB cable, click an icon on my desktop, and walk away and leave it running overnight and come back the next morning and know that my data files and song files are safe.

Finally, I think the "4 GB bug" is still unresolved -- where the transfer stalls after about 4 GB.

I don't need to extract songs from my empeg (Jazzwire's EmpegTaxi will do that). I just want the ability to create a disaster-recovery file that will leave me "whole" when (not if) my hard drive finally craters.

tanstaafl.

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