I'd like to hear more about this, too. I just got an old multi-DAT backup drive (SureStore). This seems to put me out of the taper league, but it's not clear where I go from here. Amanda seems unsuitable because (1) way too much configuration and installation for a pretty simple backup task and (2) can't do multi-tapes (and the obvious backup strategy would overflow a single DDS-2). So, do I just have to write my own script that uses mtx and tar? Hasn't somebody done this already? Thanks all, R