Hello Annisa,

Keeping ARCServe in place should be just fine and would relieve you from having to learn a new piece of backup software (not to mention having to train anybody else in the support staff that might need to use it).

The most common (only) "gotchas" that I've personally seen are related to mal-configured file permissions or occasionally name resolution problems. Make sure that the backup application's service account has access to the files and directories that you want to backup.

Best of Luck!

Regards,

Paul Benn Network Appliance

-----Original Message----- I am working on design of a backup system for our F740 filer (100G usable) in a CIFS environment. At this time we have no plans on directly attaching a tape backup device to the filer. Our current enterprise backup solution is ARCserve 6.5 (on NT).

I have the White Paper on NT Backups and am wondering what is actually in use in the field. Are there any gotcha's I need to watch out for? Any best practices out there?