[Powaqqatsi]

Hello, I would like to make an AppleScript that does the following:

-Copy let's say two or three folders from my hard drive to a location on an external hardrive (backup)
-compress the newly copied folders on the external drive using the BOMarchiveHelper.
-run the periodic script for maintenance and do a repair privileges

This is what I got working. Pretty pathetic as you can see :

Code:
tell application "Terminal"
	activate
	do script with command "cp -Rfv /Users/benoit/Music /Volumes/Sushi/Backup" in frontmost
end tell

Would it be possible to tell the Finder to copy those files instead of the terminal ? (I added the -v to cp to help my "debugging" ) I would like to preserve the file attributes which are not copied using "cp".

I found this: http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.p...ght=zip+script to do the compression. But I don't understand anything about it. To be specific: I don't know which parts of code I would need to replace in order for it to work on my directory structure (it seems that Sal's post is the correct answer).

Some help would be appreciated. I've been working on this on the past few days, and this stuff is not really my cup of tea since I don't have the time to learn AppleScript. I'm on a tight schedule.

thanks

[BLAZE_MkIV]

Why not just call do shell script in the standard additions.
"man -k fork" tells me about CpMac whick is a resource compatable copy command.
Though it is possible to use the findersw move command.