Seriously, how do I load that on a client machine without raising Eyebrows of the employee(s) in question?

It' pretty easy. From your Backup Exec (I'm on release 10) program on your server, go to Tools --> Install Remote Agent --> Right Click on Windows Remote Agent --> Browse the network to find the client machine. From there it installs it remotely without the target user knowing anything about it unless they happen to go into Add/Rmove Programs and know what the Remote Agent is.

On an unrelated note regarding backups, do you actually get 72GB on your DAT72 tapes? I have a DLT tape drive which is supposed to be 80/40 GB (compressed/uncompressed). On my nightly backups I rarely can fit 60GB on it. Recently when I backed up my Archive server which has all dead projects zipped up and read-only to the network, i couldn't even fit 40 GB on one tape. I know that zipped files can't compress much more when going to tape, but it still surprised me when it took 2 tapes. Shuffling tapes without a tape changer is a major pain, so I'm thinking I either need to buy one this year or change the way I do backups. One option I've been mulling over is outsource it to a company who keeps it offsite in multiple tarballs, which I can access across a web interphace. It costs a lot more per month and has a costly setup cost, but doesn't suffer from the never ending problem of running out of space.

Steve G.