Hi there... When I was running exch 5.5 and then exch 2000, I had a nifty little exchange util front retrospect that would do a hot backup of my information store and copy the file onto a location of my choosing. This was a speedy way to do mailbox recoveries from time to time and added a layer of redundancy to my backups... Does anything like this exist for Exchance 2003? Thank you John Parker, MCSE IT Administrator phone: 952.841.3327 | cell: 612-804-8769 fax: 952.896.9899 | www.alphavideo.com <http://www.alphavideo.com/> "Be excellent to each other" ---End of Line---