I am also interested in this. We have about the same configuration. We just bought another drive for backing up linux servers. Kinda a pain and not much room. I would rather use the same backup device for everything (It's several times faster and larger than the other tape drive. DLT 4000. Very nice). Michael Fraase wrote: > Just about the only thing that's keeping us from migrating our servers > to some variant of Linux is cross-platform backup software. > > Currently we're using Dantz Retrospect to backup everything on the LAN > to DAT connected to one of the servers via SCSI. It's transparent, > happens in the background and all I have to do is remember to keep the > tapes straight and keep feeding them to the tape beast. Retrospect ROOLZ. :) > I've never yet restored anything but our Macs completely from a backup > set (with Windows it's just easier to reformat/reinstall) but I'm > regularly pulling single files and directories from the tapes. *Your average "MACS RULE!!!" shpeel here...* > Is there software for Linux that will allow me to do the same. I want it > transparent, reliable, and in the background. I would like to see something like this also. sim