hi ya jens lots of free backup scripts that also writes to cdr
http://www.Linux-Backup.net/app.gwif.html have fun linuxing alvin - other way is to save your /etc especially sources.list and have a way to boot your vigin machine and it can rebuild itself...again and use your saved /etc to restore your config ( assuming oyu put every config thingie into /etc ) - maybe /usr/local too if you do lots of manual installs On Sat, 9 Feb 2002, Jens Gecius wrote: [NON-Text Body part not included]