you can use dd and rsync also. Then desing a script which will do all the job and mount windows partition copy it to that partition and uumount the windows partition. Nilesh -- dd,rsync for backing up windows partitions? Sounds like magic combination. Heard about smbtar for the same purpose ? If not than man smbtar will surely enlighten you. Dracula -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list