RE: Off-site backup storage Was: Managing PTF's...Strategy?

Yeah, but try and get a tape from your local bank's vault at 3am on a
Sunday morning !    



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> -----Original Message-----
> From: DAsmussen@aol.com [SMTP:DAsmussen@aol.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 1998 12:46 PM
> To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      Re: Off-site backup storage Was: Managing
> PTF's...Strategy?
> 
> John & Alan,
> 
> In a message dated 98-07-08 09:41:59 EDT, you write:
> 
> > I now have a service show up at 7am
> >  every weekday to pickup my tapes and take them away.
> 
> Another .02 -- I once had a client in a small town (with no off-site
> storage
> service) that arranged with their bank for the tapes to be dropped in
> the
> night depository.  Bank employees would place the tapes in the vault
> the next
> morning, and the night operator would pick up the oldest rotation from
> the
> bank on their way in to work.  Came in handy when they wanted to sack
> the
> night operator, as the tapes weren't stored at the person's house.  It
> was
> also cheaper to make a run to the bank than paying the "bring me the
> tapes I
> just gave you" fee that most storage firms charge!
> 
> Regards!
> 
> Dean Asmussen
> 
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