I really have very little experience with tape drives. Basicly I have one 15/30 gig, made by compaq, or at least I think. I bought this server used. I was able to get a program called taper for linux and I can back up information without a problem. This is what I want to know. Basicly I want to backup everything I have. So If a rootkit or anything of that nature is installed, I can simpily choose from one of my backups(I have a rotation schedual), but how exactly do I go about restoreing it. I check compaqs site with no luck. I guess im looking for some sort of emergency software. Can any shed some light on this.

Thanks

Check out http://members.home.com/flexbackup
The program there is easy to do a restore from.

Hi, Thank you for the replay, I was thinking that no one would respond :)? The only question I have(as I said I really have no clue on emergency restore from tape drives) is can this software allow me to restore my entire system(assuming I have it all backed up) if something goes wrong and linux(the OS I run) does not start up?

Yes, you can back up the entire system.
The command "flexbackup -fs /" archives all partitions.
Run this via cron to do nightly incrementals
"flexbackup -fs all -level 9"
To restore "flexbackup -extract archive name"