I have several questions concerning tape backups. My tape drive is as /dev/ht0 1) How does one query a tape to see what tar archives, if any, exist on it? 2) Is there a gui interface for tar that works in kde 2 (Mandrake 7.2) 3) I read that it is advisable (error recovery) to use cpio rather than tar for tape backups. Is that true? 4) Is there a gui interface for using cpio under kde 2 (Mandrake 7.2) Thank you. Jeff Malka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Registered Linux user 183185