D'oh! Backup issue solved

Yes, that would be a nice feature, but I'd be satisfied for starters with ANY Win9x-based utility that actually would provide a no-nonsense backup procedure, one that would recognize that it formatted the tape, one that would follow its own schedule and would recognize the same tape each time it was in the drive. I'd like it to start within 1 minute of when it's invoked when running on a 150 MHz machine, and that wouldn't ask me more than once if REALLY want to do what I just typed. I'd like it to go ahead and back up the files it can back up and skip the ones it can't, without human intervention, and NEVER create new files that subsequently require it be manually instructed, file by file, not to back up the files the program itself created in order to perform the backup, all of which are, of course. open. When I'm using a 20-tape library, I'd prefer it NOT ask for permission to use the next tape, and, having gotten that perimssion, I'd prefer it not ask again before overwriting the tape. I'd prefer it be able to read the backup it wrote yesterday, and I'd be happy if it could recognize the tape it just formatted.

If there were even one program that really would work, producing unattended backups of the whole system over the LAN every day, assuming there's enough bandwidth on its 100Mb channel, I'd use it. I've bought a half dozen different vendors' offerings, and half of them don't even run, let alone perform backups.