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. > 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... > 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. AB ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
