Alan Brown wrote: > On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, James Ray wrote: > >> Having an on-site fire safe is not a good idea IMHO. > > It's better than having the tapes onsite burn up.
Totally true! Having an on-site fire safe is better than no fire safe at all. > >> If you have the fire safe in the same location as your machine room >> then you are unlikely to be able to gain access to that to restore any >> data for around a week due to having to firstly let the safe cool >> down, secondly the fire safety regulations will stop you (or anyone >> useful) gaining access to the building/area to recover your media. > > Ideally the backup system should be separated from the rest of the > storage... I find that this is even harder to manage to get sorted than a fire safe that is off site. Having the backup server and tapes in another location is ideal yes and we are working towards this kind of setup here, but a fire safe doesn't require power and aircon where as the backup server and tape library do. > >> If at all possible, get the safe close by (for logistical reasons) but >> in another building and then move the tapes that are unlikely to be >> needed. Our current way of doing things is we keep ~2 to 4 days on-site >> and off-site (to the other building) the rest. When a long recovery >> comes through it means a walk to get the tapes but that's not so bad. > > I agree, but whereever the media is stored, it should be in appropriate > housing. > *nods*. Agreed. I wonder if you can get a fire safe tape library? :D -- James Ray. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Computing Services Queen Mary, University of London ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users