Our data center has a policy that I find interesting, and am inviting comment on. All backup tapes are sent off site, as part of the disaster recovery plan. Retrieval takes time and costs money. While this data center has not burned down to date, I appreciate the sense of off-site storage. I think that having the best of both worlds, keeping certain recent backups on site, and recent and historical tapes off site, makes more sense, but am not sure how to best achieve this. I am told that the data center neither has a DAT copier, nor an MPE utility to achieve this. One suggestion was to perform two sets of backups. TANSTAAFL; anything we can come up with will cost something. Again, comments are welcome, and suggestions appreciated.