Shudder!!! I Use the "two hard drive" method on my Mac G3 My main drive is a quantum 20 GIG and i have a second internal hard drive that I call "site B" it contains a complete copy of my entire applications folder (5 gigs alone!!) a complete copy of all of my system/application extensions fonts, and my entire internet folder with bookmarks etc. Mac OS versions of applications are like completely self contained little Mini-operating systems and can therefore be simply copied via drag and drop from one location drive to another fully intact without having to actually reinstall them from the CD in their "Barebones" factory state. My self imposed backup policy is Draconian whenever i make a major change to a poser prop or figure library I delete the the entire poser4 folder from the backup drive and replace it with the most recent copy from the main drive. I Dont even bother with any of that Norton Disk doctor/diskwarrior rescue crap!! My policy is zero tolerance in regards to a malfunctioning system I have no problem starting up from th OS Cd rom and directing the mac os drive setup utility to intitialize my main drive completely erasing it!! because i can be fully restored from "site B" in one hour this may sound extreme but I sure do sleep better at night What backup /recovery schemes do you guy/gals use??? Mocap