-> JB> We've been using this method for quite a while sucessfully.  We even 
JB>
-> back up our OS/2 machine this way too.  You can do DOS machiens too if JB>
-> you have the right requestor loaded on the DOS machines.
-> I've tried backing up over the network with limited success. Usually it
-> works, but fails enough times to move to something different.  WHen it 
comes
-> to backups, I want things to work 99.9% of the time.
Understood.  We've carefully looked at our LAN environments (since my
background is really networking) and found that our reliability is pretty 
igh
now.  A few things we found which caused problems were network drivers, low
quality network cards and insufficient buffering on the drivers. The other
problem is open files but this happens on local backups too.  For this we 
ave
found two solutions.  First the Enterprise version of BackUpExec will backup
the files or you can use the OpenFile Manager product, which is a little more
robust in this area.  We've got DLT tape drives running off of NT with a
very high sucess rate for backups but we also have a few hundred workstations
making tape drives for each machine impractical (especially the laptops 
g>)..
Just my 2 cents worth...
                                Jeff
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