Hello again, do any of you know if choosing Veritas BE 9.0 or ARCSERVE for Exchange 2000 if they will allow backup directly to a disk system and in file format? For example, NTBACKUP will write a file directly to disk in BKF format. Do these 2 packages support this option? Thank You Jim ########################################### This message has been scanned by F-Secure Anti-Virus for Microsoft Exchange. For more information, connect to http://www.F-Secure.com/