I think I am getting closer to ideas as to how to back this up. I will do as you said to backup the os, take an image or something of that nature. I will take a full backup every one to three months of the virtual machines, however the data that the vm is working with will be mounted seperately so that if the virtual machine goes down all that is needed is to restore the last backup of the vm and mount the storage and we should be up and running. Now my only worry is how to backup data that the vm''s are accessing. I guess my question is this: Say I take a full backup every x amount of days, say 7 so weekly backups. I then take snapshots throughout the week. Then something happens and there is a flood or something. Once I have all hardware and that side of things going, can I restore from that full backup and then apply the snapshots to it. Will I then be up to yesterday backup wise or are those snapshots useless and I am up to last week. Thanks for helping! Greg -- This message posted from opensolaris.org