I don't have an HP-UX system up at the moment, so I know nothing, and a quick forum search for: fbackup pipeline didn't immediately yield a complete example, but I believe that the only real trick is to specify "-f -" to get fbackup to send its output to stdout, and then pipe that into an frestore command where you also specify "-f -" to get it to take its input from stdin. So, something like the following: ( cd src_dir ; fbackup -f - -i . [other_options?] ) | \ ( cd dst_dir ; frecover -f - -r [other_options?] ) I normally use "tar" instead of fbackup+frecover for this sort of thing, so I'd test that suggestion on a small directory tree before trusting it with anything important. (Do you need/want a "-0" on the fbackup?) Replace ";" with "&&" if you don't trust the "cd" commands. This example assumes that dst_dir exists, but one could add a mkdir command before the "cd". Add a remsh/ssh to one side if you can't see both file systems from the same system. A quick forum (or Web) search for, say: tar pipeline should find plenty of examples using "tar", including some remsh/rsh/ssh action, if details are needed for that.