FYI: I am new to drupal, drush and PHP but am an experienced programmer in other areas. Am familiar and comfortable with the command line. I use drush on both Linux and Mac. I have a drupal site to archive, but there are many directories under the filesystem root which are not part of the site. NOTE: This has happened because I use Hostmonster and add-on domains are "added on" under the site root. I know that archive-dump has an exclude option and I could chain a couple of dozen 'excludes' but that's not nearly as 'elegant' as chaining seven 'includes' - which would be includes, misc, modules, profiles, scripts, sites, themes Any ideas? thanks -- Tim tim at tee jay forty nine dot com or akwebsoft dot com http://www.akwebsoft.com, http://www.tj49.com