>>>> Don't bother. If you are a serious Adobe designer get >>>> yourself a Mac and dual boot it between OS X and CentOS or >>>> triple with Windows. >>> Or use parallels or vmware and run all 3 at once when you want... and >>> let the built in time machine tool do backups to an external firewire or >>> network drive. >> >> Yes, even better. I think VMware sells a version of workstation for OS X >> now too. > > Yes, and I think it will run VM's created under VMware server on linux > or windows, although you may not be able to move them the other > direction with some of the options you can use on the mac or windows > workstation versions. I just called VMWare and the guy said that for what I wanted to do, a bare metal restore solution, that I would be better served by going with either hardware or software raid maybe combined with something like a tape backup solution, and that their desktop / workstation applications are not suited as a complete backup - bare metal restore solution. He said their system was mainly for taking system snapshots for development purposes. _________________________________________________________________ Helping your favorite cause is as easy as instant messaging. You IM, we give. http://im.live.com/Messenger/IM/Home/?source=text_hotmail_join