At 09:48 AM 07/21/00, Joseph Rosenblatt wrote:
>I suppose it depends on at what temperature the media starts to melt. My
>guess is that it would be lower than the temperature at which paper burns,
>which we all know is 451 degrees F.
>The more important question is whether you will be able to recover the tapes
>from the cabinet. Many times after a fire the building is off limits for a
>period of time. So, even if your tapes are in good condition you may not be
>able to recover them. While there is no truly fail safe method of storing
>media many offsite storage companies provide a close to 100% safe solution.
>The trick is to know how often you need to get tapes offsite, i.e. how much
>data can you afford to lose?

Exactly.  Backups are performed every day at 4:00 am, and taken offsite
each evening, so the latest backup is exposed to the (slight) possibility
of fire during the day.  The thought was to reduce the risk to the latest
backups each day by storing them in the cabinet until they are taken offsite.


Tom Brandt
Northtech Systems, Inc.
http://www.northtech.com