On Sunday, March 2, 2003, at 05:45 AM, Marcus Raitner wrote: > > That's true. Thanks! But could't I use the backup and restore > functions of NetInfo Manager. For me the Terminal is no problem but > others might be interested as well. Yes, you should be able to authenticate as the root user, dump the database (local.nibak is the default name of the dump), and then restore from that dump later. I'm not sure if that task could be automated in OS X or not, for periodic backups. -- Chris