Hello everybody, For our W2k3 rollout I have to choose between two backup software applications. One of them is Brightstor Arcserve 11 and the other is MS Backup wich is buildin the W2k3 OS. Arcserve is pretty neat and does what it's supposed to do! The minor issue is that the package is very fancy and has a lot of functions we even not look at! But the backup procedure en capabilities are very good. We use Arcserve for years now on our Novell Platforms. No complains there! Now to the Microsoft Backup software. Actually this is exact what we need. A piece of software that is simple and works right like it should be. Specially the ASR function is very neat! Now to the minor I have encountered! I created a scheduled backup from monday to friday! With Arcserve I can tell the job to format the tape each time before starting the full backup! So regardless of wich tape is insert, Arcserve will start a full backup! Why can't I do this with MS Backup? If I can solve this issue, we most porbably will choose the MS backup software. Otherwise I have to study a few more weeks on Arcserve (restoring ;-). Many thanks in advance, Herman Franssen