I have a number of small OpenSuSE 10.3 Samba File Servers. They have commercial software that does a good job of backing up. but, like most, not such a good job of restoring. Especially if you need to do a bare metal recovery. On some of these systems I keep an identical drive already set up so that if needed I can plug it in and do a data only restore. I don't use or believe that strongly in mirroring or duplexing so I don't want to go there. Question is: What are the easiest/best solutions for Disaster Recovery...? One that a "Shop Owner" could perform with a little help. These Servers don't have any "IT" people on staff, but I'd like them to be as in dependant as possible in a crisis. I'm open to both built in tools (dump/restore rsync, etc.), although I'm not that familiar with them, and commercial.. All these systems have DVD Writers and the Backup is to DDS-4 DAT Drives -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org