Hi All,

  I'm looking for advice and also a basic sanity check on the following
proposal:

 We currently have 2 48-slot DLT silos. These libraries meet all of our backup
needs and allow our staff to do a very minimal amount of tape juggling in and
out of the silos.

  We now have a new mandate to regularly send copies of backup images off-site.
We want to keep our primary images in the silos to facilitate quick recoveries.
Our thinking is that we don't want to duplicate the images to other tapes in the
silos as we will need to keep a larger pool of free tapes in them, and also will
need to start injecting and ejecting tapes on a daily basis. We feel that a
small tape stacker might allow us to easily create offsite images as needed.

So my question is, is anyone else doing this? How about any advice on stackers
for unix boxes?