Any help on this subject would be greatly appreciated. My understanding about trasaction records and how they releate to backup = and restore is that when you do a full or incremental backup, the = trasaction logs are purged. In order to restore your database, you would = require a full set of transaction logs. Does this mean that I would = require all Window 2000 backup files that I have ever created on my = exchange machine. My concern is that I have deleted previous backup = files and am worried that I will not be able to restore in case of a = problem. Thank you in advance for your time, Carson Reid Creid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx