Re: Help w/ offsite backups

[Chuck Lewis <clewis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Dan,

I'm right down the street from you Indianapolis location so for a reasonable 
fee,
I'd be happy to pickup and deliver each day :-)

Seriously though, as others have stated, find someone local that provides this
service. If you need someone here, I have a reference and they may have 
locations
in other cities or they might have agreements with other providers too !

Chuck

D.BALE@handleman.com wrote:

> The auditors are beating their drums around here and have decided to implement
> a requirement for off-site backup for our branch AS/400s.  This is coming to
> me second-hand, so I don't know the specifics, except that we are now
> requiring our branches to send to us (at corporate) via 2-day express mail the
> backup tapes (cartidges) from the Thursday night backups.  We will have a
> 3-week cycle of tapes.  Week 1 arrives, we send back week 3.  Week 2 arrives,
> we send back week 1.  Week 3 arrives, we send back week 2.  This is a
> quick-to-implement, temporary plan to satisfy the auditors immediately; in the
> near future, we will be looking at off-site storage services local to the
> branch, as well as on-site safe storage, among other options.  So pleeezze, no
> lectures on all the shortcomings of this plan.  We know the shortcomings -
> 'nuff said.
>
> Questions:
> How should we go about *safely* packaging this media?
> Someone brought up the concern of stray magnetic waves that could hit the
> media between point A and point B, effectively destroying the data.  Is this a
> real concern?  If so, how does one effectively protect magnetic media when
> shipping it?
> Anybody know of import/export rules for this type of material for Mexico,
> Canada, and the U.K.?
> Anybody doing this recommend (or not) any particular delivery service company?
>
> TIA.
>
> - Dan
> Dan Bale says "Ban Dale!"
> IT - AS/400
> Handleman Company
> 248-362-4400  Ext. 4952
> D.Bale@Handleman.com
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