While not a networker topic, it does come under the disaster and recovery 
umbrella.  I was wondering if folks are using in-house management of off-site 
storage of their tapes or a commercial vendor such as Iron Mountain.  We've 
been managing our off-site storage in-house, rotating tapes out on a monthly 
basis.  While it is at a different physical location, it's not far enough if 
there were a regional disaster.  To date, we've not used the cloning 
capabilities of networker.  I know that we'd need to clone for real offsite 
storage.  I've been tasked to research and recommend a solution for offsite 
tape storage.  I've sent out queries to several companies, but most of the 
information seems to be hitting on the "cloud" solution vs the "old" tape 
vaulting.

In the scheme of things, we are rather small.  One site, one networker server, 
under 5TB total data storage.  Other than DPM, we go from client to tape with 
room to spare.  What is anyone doing for this part of their backup activities, 
and is there anyone using someone other than Iron Mountain?

Patti Clark - RHCT, GSEC
Sr. Linux/UNIX System Administrator
Office of Scientific and Technical Information



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