I too have had great success with Adaptec SCSI cards. Currently using a PCI 2940UW with a DDS-2 tape drive and Plextor CD burner. If you have lots of disk space and are on an internal (secured) network, backups to disk over NFS work good. Use dump each night from cron. Put the data to tape as often as you deem necessary (nightly, weekly, monthly, etc...) Personally I do backups nightly to disk, weekly to tape and about every 3-4 months a burn a cd of my most critical systems. For the NT box, use samba. In case you missed my backup presentation: http://thinkunix.net/docs/backup-overview/ Raymond Norton wrote: > I need to implement a reliable backup system using tape.