Alan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 2 Mar 2007, Bill Moran wrote: > > >> A fire safe might fit the bill here. > > > > I've always wondered about this. > > > > If I put _plastic_ tapes in a fire safe, how long does the safe actually > > insulate the tapes from the heat that will damage them. > > Not long. > > A standards-compliant "data safe" on the other hand will provide > protection agains at least 2 hours at 1500C and 24 hour coooling down > period. Most also provide protection against large drops (floor failure in > multistory buildings) and longer burn periods. > > Several data safes are simply firesafes fitted with inserts aimed at > keeping internal temperatures below 60C. > > > Does anyone have any direct experience with how well a fire safe protects > > something like backup tapes? If it's well insulated, it will protect them > > for a while, but long enough for the fire to be extinguished? > > Only once, and only a small safe on a customer site, but yes. > > Our current main fire/data safe is a Phoenx Data commander 4623, which is > capable of taking 720 LTO tapes in current configuration (39 per drawer, > cased, increasing to 45 uncased) > > See http://www.phoenixsafeusa.com/ > or http://www.phoenixsafeusa.com/us/viewproduct/4620_data_commander.html > > This cost a shade under US $10,000 with tax and delivery included.
Interesting, but I suspect that's a little out of the price range for someone wanting to protect their data at home. I know I wouldn't even know where to put such a thing at my house. It'd be cheaper to just rent a safe-deposit box. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
