>> BTW, how we are going to backup the old installation. >> Do we have a tape device attached to the cluster? > we have a dat tape drive, but i don't know if we have any > tapes. we've been burning CDs from our office machines. That's o.k. if you only want user's home directory backup. But if we want system backup of the cluster RH6.2 OS, that's not going to help us. Sasko