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I have an external DAT tape backup system (DDS-2 ;scsi external) that operates thru Windows…specifically, Adaptec SCSI Tape Backup. The problem is that I can't get the program to recognize my PAR drive (E:) in order to back up. I use Razor Pro – that is a Windows based program and it recognizes my Par drive…even the File Manager recognizes it. Am I trying to go about this the wrong way? The other thing that I tried was to export files from PAR to my "D" drive – ( a 1 gig external hard drive) and then back up. I was exporting .TGAs but that filled my drive pretty fast at 1.5 meg per – realize that this is a 9555 frame animation I'm dealing with, so I'm only writing out 900-950 tgas before my drive is full. Somebody, please, tell me there's a better way. The 9555 frames, as an .ANI file, is 708 meg…so what I'd **like to do** is just back-up the ani file and restore it when I need it again. Am I being rediculous ? I realize that we all don't always get what we want. Yet I'm still hoping someone can put me on the "path to righteousness". T.I.A. Gary 🙂