RE: the whoops! and off site tape storage

[James Rich <james@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 7 May 2004, Mark A. Manske wrote:

> Here we have next to the computer a "box" with daily "changed only objects"

And Jerry wrote:

> We send them out every AM and I'm finding that it would be convenient to
> have a
> tape on site to restore a "whoops!" file (one that got whacked in error by
> an
> embarrased pgmr).  It costs us $300 to retrieve a tape and takes 2 hours.
>
> Are others sending tapes off immediately or waiting a day or so?

For just these situations we create a save file that gets ftp'ed over to a
linux box.  The daily tapes go off site.  If we need to fix a "whoops!" we
just restore from the save file that is stored on the linux machine.
Since disk for the linux box is so cheap, we can store as many of the save
files as we want, naming them by date.  If the linux box goes casters up,
it is no big deal since we also have the offsite tapes.

James Rich

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