No. As long as you have more space available on the destination volume than the collective file size of your source volume you're OK. Coj Robert Nicholson <robert at elastica.com> Does it require the backup drive to be the same size as the source or not? > I just used the Restore feature in Tiger to make a copy of my start > up disk on my empty 40 GB drive. I was then able to select it in > System Preferences as the start up disk. It started up fine and > seemed to work fine. > > Thanks, > > Kevin