Too easy.. just use FTP to grab /dev/hda and /dev/hdc from the player and save them under the system of your choice. I accept paypal

Of course, this is very slow.. and cannot handle incremental backups, but it does capture EVERYTHING.

Please excuse my ignorance abut things *nix. Or does that even enter into it?

Would I just set up an ethernet connection between my empeg and my PC, determine what IP address the empeg was using, and then at my PC do something like:

CD C:\
mkdir empegftp
cd empegftp
ftp
open <empeg IP address>
mget /dev/hd*

and then would the restore operation work pretty much the same way except use "mput" instead of "mget"?

You say "...this would be very slow..." How slow is that? I have about 15 GB on my player. Are we talking hours, here? Days? Weeks? Even if it took a couple of days, I wouldn't mind.

Am I on the right track here, or am I just displaying my indomitable ignorance?

tanstaafl.