If you're planning to use tape, you might want to check out StorageMountain.com's on-line "Using Amanda" excerpt from the book, "Unix Backup & Recovery": http://www.backupcentral.com/amanda.html (I believe this was mentioned during Scot's talk on backups ...) -- Joel Schneider Jazz - jazz88fm.com joel at joelschneider.net ISEE - www.i-see.org