I have an NT system that I wish to back up. However, it has no tape drive. I do have a Unix system (FreeBSD) on the network with a tape drive. I was wondering whether sharing NT's disks and using smbtar (on the FreeBSD system) would be a reliable method of generating a FULL backup ? The NT system to be backed up has two SCSI disks C: (9.1GB NTFS) and D: (2 GB FAT16 [Windows98]). Are there any things to watch out for ? Is the 1024 max path length an issue ? I guess it depends on how deep my NT directory hierarchy is ? If I ever have to recover either of the above disks on the NT system, I have a spare 200mb IDE disk (not normally installed) with NT on it (sees the above two disks as D: and E:). Should I also consider booting from this disk to do the backup ? Or is it safe to share the disk that you booted from ? Appreciate any tips/comments to alternate ways to go about this. Please CC: me on any replies. Tony