If I had to guess, I'd say 75% or more of people on this list use
them...they're as common as Symantec of Microsoft.
;o)
In my opinion, sending tapes off site with labels on them identifying, or
hinting, in any way shape or form, what the data is on those tapes is a
security risk.....
eliminating as much info from being stored with the tapes is security by
obscurity, if you will.
If a tape was lost while offsite, would you rather it be an obscure barcode, or
a label that says "Astrium HR-Finance"??
If anything, I'd consider a spreadsheet that correlated contents to barcode,
and keep it on storage that is replicated to your DR site, or just send it to a
network printer at your DR site.
That way you can search the spreadsheet by required data type/volume pool, etc,
and then find the barcode which is then vaulted in alphanumberical order,
instead of having to go to the vault and search through boxes of hundreds of
tapes looking for the one that says "Primary Active Directory server Nov 10th
2006"
Paul
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-----Original Message-----
From: WEAVER, Simon [mailto:simon.weaver at astrium.eads.net]
Sent: November 10, 2006 1:31 AM
To: Paul Keating
Cc: 'Veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu'
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Recognise Media from NBU
LOL Hey Paul you wont believe this, I use them too :-))) Mind you, it
was a Nightmare getting them to agree to our security procedures!!!
But its great!
and I do agree, it does not necessarily mean you have to label the
tapes - like you and I said, AM can tell you - get Iron Mountain to ship teh
case of tapes, we load and away we go :-)
for the record I have many copies of the catalog - this company has
been down a nasty road, and I want to ensure the words import and "hundreds of
tapes" dont make a sentance :-)
Cheers for your reply Paul
Regards
Simon Weaver
3rd Line Technical Support
Windows Domain Administrator
EADS Astrium Limited, B23AA IM (DCS)
Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU
Email: Simon.Weaver at Astrium-eads.net <mailto:Simon.Weaver at
Astrium-eads.net>
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Keating [mailto:pkeating at bank-banque-canada.ca]
Sent: 09 November 2006 18:51
To: Veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Recognise Media from NBU
Absolutely.
When a tape is "full" or otherwise not needed, ship it out.
when you need it, call it back by barcode.
I've done this for years, even with Iron Mountain.
Everyday we'd kick out the "full" tapes, and run a vault report
to see what offsite tapes had exprired (gone back to scratch)
We give them a box of tapes every day, and request the
"expired" ones to be brought back.
when we start up a backup and it says a tape is needed that's
not in the library, we call Iron Mountain, and tell them what tape we want, and
it comes in with the next day's delivery or expired tapes....or sooner if it's
critical/time sensitive.
Slightly different here as we write to tape at two locations,
and only send out archive tapes....here we send out boxes of 20 tapes sealed
with a numbered tag......and keep a record of what barcodes belong to which
tag.....if we need a tape, we call back the whole box of 20.
once the tapes are kicked out of the library, it's just a
random barcode...I don't really care what's on each individual tape..that's
what the catalog is for.
I only keep track of which barcodes are catalog tapes......I
can always recover the catalog, adn that's all I need.
Paul
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-----Original Message-----
From: veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of WEAVER, Simon
Sent: November 9, 2006 6:34 AM
To: 'Clooney, David'; Veritas-bu at
mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Recognise Media from NBU
Anyhow, I think the easiest method here is going to
just rely on activity monitor and if a tape is needed not in the Library, then
they can just go ahead and load it :-)
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