Re 2: Sorry to waste your time - I will stop using rsync

[Trevor Marshall]

Peter,
One other thing.

The first two times it crashed I erased the file tree created by rsync so
that the snaphot started from scratch again. 

Each of these two times it got to exactly the same file:
usr/lib/locale/es_CO/LC_COLLATE

when it crashed. 

That was when I stopped rebuidling and re-cabling my hardware, because I
saw a determinate pattern in the crashes...

(sheepish) should have said that before .. sorry..

..Trevor..