hey, is there really no chance to write a "backup dump" to a named pipe or input for a program? for ex (but this does not work), to create it in the mount script of butc: devicefile=$1 tapename=$4 tapeid=$5 /bin/ln -s /var/tmp/${tapename}_${tapeid} ${devicefile} mkfifo /var/tmp/${tapename}_${tapeid} i want to use the backup capabilites and not simply do a vos dump. thanks, markus.