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Vic — I have an RByte-100 4mm DDS drive mounted internally in my PC. It backed up and verified 448,662,740 bytes (428MB) in 1 hr 33 mins. Assuming equal time to do the write and read back (and ignoring rewind time), that works out to 157KB/sec, or almost twice as fast as I can transfer data over my network. Copying a 3MB+ file from the PC to the Amiga under NFS transfers data at 79KB/sec. Since the PC has the preponderance of data (380MB to 68MB), I decided to install the tape backup there. I suppose that I can call the company that I got the drive from and get an external box for it so I could mount it on my Amiga. Don't ask me what I want to reserve the 5.25 slot in the Amiga for, but I might need room for something in the future. Thanks for your suggestion to mount the tape drive on the Ami. Since the backup runs at midnight, I don't really care how long it takes, so it's not important where the tape drive is mounted. However, it's a real PITA to have copies _to_ the PC take 8-9 times as long as transfers _from_ the PC. Writing a file from the Ami to an NFS partition on the PC transfers data at 8-9KB/sec Writing a file from an NFS partition on the PC to the Ami transfers data at 79KB/sec An NFS put to the PC transfers data at 68KB/sec An NFS get from the PC transfers data at 86KB/sec I _really_ want to know where the problem is. I guess that I would have been an EE if I weren't a programmer. The worst part of it is that it isn't _my_ code. If it were, I would know how to fix it. BobS