The Linux operating system has found early acceptance in corporations around the world in the role of print server, Web server and email server. But is it ready to take on the mission-critical duties of a backup server? Can you trust your company's crown jewels (its data) to such a young operating system, and what tools are available to make implementation more palatable?. We will show why Linux makes a great data protection server, suitable for almost any size environment. You'll learn how inherent reliability, economical hardware implementations, cost-effective scalability, market growth and acceptance, widespread support,and a growing applications software base account for the widening deployment of Linux within enterprise computing environments.