Re: [Bacula-users] backup tapes at home

2007-03-05 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Monday 05 March 2007 19:58, Chris Hoogendyk wrote: > Kern Sibbald wrote: > > On Monday 05 March 2007 16:48, Alan Brown wrote: > >> On Sun, 4 Mar 2007, Bill Moran wrote: > >>> Interesting, but I suspect that's a little out of the price range for > >>> someone wanting to protect their data at home

Re: [Bacula-users] backup tapes at home

2007-03-05 Thread Chris Hoogendyk
Kern Sibbald wrote: > On Monday 05 March 2007 16:48, Alan Brown wrote: > >> On Sun, 4 Mar 2007, Bill Moran wrote: >> >>> 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 s

Re: [Bacula-users] backup tapes at home

2007-03-05 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Monday 05 March 2007 16:48, Alan Brown wrote: > On Sun, 4 Mar 2007, Bill Moran wrote: > > 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. > > Small dat

Re: [Bacula-users] backup tapes at home

2007-03-05 Thread Alan Brown
On Sun, 4 Mar 2007, Bill Moran wrote: > 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. Small data safes can be had for as little as $500...

Re: [Bacula-users] backup tapes at home

2007-03-04 Thread Steve Ellis
Bill Moran wrote: > Alan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 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 ht

Re: [Bacula-users] backup tapes at home

2007-03-04 Thread Bill Moran
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 damag

Re: [Bacula-users] backup tapes at home

2007-03-02 Thread Alan Brown
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

Re: [Bacula-users] backup tapes at home

2007-03-02 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, On 3/2/2007 10:02 PM, Bill Moran wrote: > In response to Ryan Novosielski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: ... >>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 th

Re: [Bacula-users] backup tapes at home

2007-03-02 Thread Ryan Novosielski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Only trouble there: what if the guy next to you is storing his antique magnet collection? :-P Don MacArthur wrote: > I don't personally do this, but (here in the US) I've heard of people > using safety deposit boxes at the bank or post office mailboxe

Re: [Bacula-users] backup tapes at home

2007-03-02 Thread Don MacArthur
I don't personally do this, but (here in the US) I've heard of people using safety deposit boxes at the bank or post office mailboxes at the the post office to store tapes overnight for daily rotation. On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 21:51 +0100, Stéphane Lardier wrote: > I have an autoloader with 8 tapes

Re: [Bacula-users] backup tapes at home

2007-03-02 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Ryan Novosielski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Stéphane Lardier wrote: > > I have an autoloader with 8 tapes. I am afraid of fire and I want have a > > full backup of my computers at home. So, I can save on 6 tapes and have > > a diffe

Re: [Bacula-users] backup tapes at home

2007-03-02 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Stéphane Lardier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I have an autoloader with 8 tapes. I am afraid of fire and I want have a > full backup of my computers at home. So, I can save on 6 tapes and have > a different job to save on my two dedicated tapes. But, may be it will > be not possible to

Re: [Bacula-users] backup tapes at home

2007-03-02 Thread Ryan Novosielski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stéphane Lardier wrote: > I have an autoloader with 8 tapes. I am afraid of fire and I want have a > full backup of my computers at home. So, I can save on 6 tapes and have > a different job to save on my two dedicated tapes. But, may be it will > b