Bert,
I am only zipping my PM program and that is done automatically by the program's back up feature. And, no, I would not expect AC to back up all of my server. But I would expect AC to back up all of AC, including the imported items, in a compressed form.

Leslie

Leslie
Hospital Employed Physician Who Misses The Old AC

"It's a good thing for a doctor to have prematurely grey hair and itching piles. It makes him appear to know more than he does and gives him an expression of concern which the patient interprets as being on his behalf. "