You maybe able to backup to disk, then copy the disk files to tape. What backup software are you using? ---------- Hello list friends, I've been thinking about our backup tapes recently and I thought of some questions that I can't seem to find an answer to.. First, I have a 2 Gig tape which a partial backup was made on it which takes up only 500MB of the tape.. If I want to back up another 500MB group on to tape but don't want to waste another tape on such a small job then.. Is there a way to append to a tape, add files to a tape with out washing out the previous backup? Second, What is the fastest tape drive out there? Presently our backups take about 4 hours to run. Is there any way to speed that up? Different tape drive, different type of tape perhaps? Or is that all dependent on the speed of your proccesser and such? Just curious, Gehan Gehale __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com * To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, * * etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html * ********** Posted from www.3kworld.com * To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, * * etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html *