Well, I'm finally convinced that tape backup machines are evil. I'm considering going without a tape backup and do IDE hard drives or perhaps even writable DVDs. (Do they make rewritable DVDs yet?) I have to backup windows workstations. There are about five of them. I'm going to backup "My Documents" and Outlook email. I don't want to create shares on each workstation as they'd be visible by all. I know that I could reduce permissions to make the shares readable by a single user/machine. I'd also like to only backup changed files, and encryption would be nice. Either client pushing to server or server pulling from client is fine. Right now, I think it would be easier to run something on the client that pushes data to a server. My question is: Does anyone know of a program that does this: backup changed windows files to a remote linux machine that I can execute at defined times? I'm willing to run samba on the linux server. I realize this may be off-topic as I am trying to do things on windows machines. Just wondering any of you have tried to solve a similar problem. Thanks. -- Gordon Chamberlin Software Architect Visualize, Inc. http://www.visualize.com (602) 861-0999 ext. 14 glac@visualize.com