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"John Proctor" <jproctor0@hotmail.com> 09/06/05 9:18 AM >>> I wonder if any one can help I have SuSE 9.2, and I am trying to use yast2-backup from yast but when I try it doesn't give me the choice of tape only CD, floppy, and ZIP I can backup from tape with the command "find / -depth -print | cpio -ocvB -O /dev/st0" but it backs up everything and when I have tried to restore, it just corrupts the system ( I guess it restores files it shouldn't) so I thought the yast backup might be better. Any help would be greatly appreciated I have looked through the documentation and even tried on the web including the Suse center John.

Maybe Kdat for a simple solution is better for you? It's available through YaST. Also there are some easy to use free tape backup solutions such as Arkeia which although not OSS, I found extremely easy to install via RPM and use. It's all clicky-clicky so you don't need to mess with command lines. Free for upto 50GB, you pay for more. Check out this link to download: http://www.arkeia.com/download/light/ SteveC