Good point, Tom. I'm one of the fortunate ones who has never had a corrupted database, but I know plenty of others have had them. Frequent backups might be an absolute necessity after the end of the year. Glenn >There are instances where a TMG user has an issue with their database and they "send in" their TMG project files and the database corruption is fixed by Wholly Genes. What happens if you need to do this after the current support period runs out and there is no longer "official" product support? If no-one volunteers (or for pay) to assist with database "fixing" in the future, then maybe your backups can be reverted to, with some loss of data from the time of the last backup. At any rate, I think that evaluating other software, testing data imports, and coming up with an exit strategy is a good idea. Tom M.