Hi Alan / anyone, > best discussed on a list dedicated to backups > so a spooling setup is needed to avoid shoeshine Appreciate if you can point me to good active lists for DataProtector & NetBackup. Need to explore more. I've seen a German corporate using numerous low-cost NAS (as they cost a lot less than one large tape library with four drives) to do image (ie system/boot disks) & data backups to the NAS. They rotate the NAS' SATA disks offsite : critics have it disks may crash & there's lack of security encryption but a SATA disk can cost less than LTO tapes for each GB of storage Sun -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster