adam brodsky said: >I know this topic has been covered, probably dozens of times. However has it >been discussed specifically for Panther? >I just got one of the new iBooks 14 inch 1.42mhz system 10.4 with the super >drive. And I¹m looking for an elegant, inexpensive simple program to make >incremental backups to DVD¹s The hard part of your question is your desire to back up to DVD's. Though there are a bunch of backup utilities for OS X, backups spanning multiple DVD's is a fairly rare feature, especially among inexpensive backup utilities. But I think that I have a solution that will meet your needs! Impression ($25) http://babelcompany.com/impression/ Can back up directories to multiple optical discs (CD-R, CD-RW, and DVD-R) with multi-directory backups, incremental/differential backups, and direct-to-disk archiving. Randy B. Singer Co-Author of: The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th and 6th editions) Routine OS X Maintenance and Generic Troubleshooting http://www.macattorney.com/ts.html