I tell my people to do that too, but the problem i have found is that they have options. Most of the time they click no. so when their system breaks down and we need to reimage one they wonder why they have no data. thats the reason for my script. I want to take away options for them. Currently all my companies computers back up to a san. that is why i want the script to check if they are on the network before actually doing the back up. i plan to make this script run when they log on the system, like placing it in the startup folder.