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...t to consider, it would be a "tape disk", which would simplify backup quite a bit. On the WNT side it would emulate a disk, but would really just shuffle the bits off to a tape drive on the Unix side. On the samba side there would be some sort of mapping like: tape_disk_nrns = /dev/tapenrns and you would set the position on the tape with "mt" (or similar) commands. Then you could use smbclient in a script to do something like (pseudocode) net use Q: \\samba\tape_disk_nrns regback ??? ! store current version of registry on running disk backup C: Q: /a ! use I don...