Re: [Bacula-users] Offsite vol management

2006-11-14 Thread Alan Brown
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 > f

Re: [Bacula-users] Offsite vol management

2006-11-14 Thread James Ray
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 loc

Re: [Bacula-users] Offsite vol management

2006-11-14 Thread James Ray
Alan Brown wrote: > On Mon, 13 Nov 2006, Eric Rousse wrote: > >> Currently, I store tape locally > > In a data safe? > >> and in the tape changer. But we also bring our tapes offsite, just in >> case anything happen to our server room. > > Is the offsite storage in a data safe? > >> But is th

Re: [Bacula-users] Offsite vol management

2006-11-13 Thread Eric Rousse
Hi Alan, Well, either on site or offsite, it's not in a data safe. Yeah, I know we need to invest in a good data safe, its on my too-do list... But even with a data safe that can handle 1100C, it makes you a bit unsecure... :P thanks for your answer, I'll try to keep a manual list of the offsit

Re: [Bacula-users] Offsite vol management

2006-11-13 Thread Alan Brown
On Mon, 13 Nov 2006, Eric Rousse wrote: > Currently, I store tape locally In a data safe? > and in the tape changer. But we also bring our tapes offsite, just in > case anything happen to our server room. Is the offsite storage in a data safe? > But is there a way to track that information re

Re: [Bacula-users] Offsite vol management

2006-11-13 Thread Michel Meyers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eric Rousse wrote: > Hi guys, > > We are currently running Bacula for our backups. It works perfectly. I > was just wondering if there's anything available for Offsite volume > management ? > So far, I haven't seen anything, but if someone has an idea,

[Bacula-users] Offsite vol management

2006-11-13 Thread Eric Rousse
Hi guys, We are currently running Bacula for our backups. It works perfectly. I was just wondering if there's anything available for Offsite volume management ? So far, I haven't seen anything, but if someone has an idea, that would be great. Currently, I store tape locally and in the tape cha