Re: DAT tapes/drives We have a 'warm' spare machine with the same 'make' of DAT drive in it. The spare machine gets overnight copies of the main machines data filesystems also. And, yes, the tape drives read each others tapes ! Tim -- Gllug mailing list - Gllug at gllug.org.uk http://lists.gllug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug