Re: What are you using to ship tapes off to your D/R hotsite for tests?

No, this is for the twice per year D/R test. We'll ship the tapes out to
arrive the day before the test, unpack directly to the library during
the test, and re-box at the end of the test. Then we'll ship them home
by common carrier and put them back in our normal off-site storage.

For a true disaster, we'll use the corporate plane or a charter plane
and go with the tapes.

If we went with the Rhino carriers, we'd want to package two or three to
a shipping box.

I'd rather not ship, myself but I'm getting overruled. From a truly
paranoid viewpoint, we don't have shipping capabilities at our off-site
facility -- so to ship, we need to bring all the tapes back to the data
center to be picked up by the carrier du jour.

Tom

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Allen S. Rout
Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2006 12:42 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: What are you using to ship tapes off to your D/R hotsite
for tests?

>> On Thu, 28 Dec 2006 10:55:31 -0500, "Kauffman, Tom"
<KauffmanT AT NIBCO DOT COM> said:


> I'm looking for an economical shipping container (or containers) for
> LTO tapes.

When we were moving tapes to Iron Mountain, we had a bunch of "Rhino
Carriers".  Just formed plastic, specific to the tape architecture; 20
tapes per case, lockable, but that's more of a "tamper evident" than a
true protection thing; the case itself would fall neatly to tinsnips.
I don't know that it'd pass muster for volumes to be entrusted to a
public carrier.

If you're moving from duffels, I presume your hotsite would uncrate
and shelve them and you'd call for tape return by volser instead of
shipping crate?

- Allen S. Rout
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