Offsite tape storage?

Wed Jul 16 09:14:02 PDT 2003

At 9:46 PM -0700 7/15/03, Paul M. Moriarty wrote:
>William R Ward writes:
>[...]
>>
>>  My bank charges $35 per year for a safe deposit box.  Sounds about the
>>  right size for your needs.
>>
>
>Allow me to rephrase.  I run IT for a medium-sized, multinational company.
>I am on the road over 50% of the time.  The only presence we have in the US
>is a small, corporate HQ (20 ppl).  In the US, I have a part-time desktop
>support guy; that's it.  Everything else is either outsourced or offshore.

Kinda off on a tangent here, but in my experience, office managers or 
receptionists are usually more reliable about getting the backup 
tapes taken care of than anybody on the IT staff.  To anybody on the 
IT staff, getting the tapes off-site is a low-priority task, which 
they let slide whenever they're busy with something else (which is to 
say, most of the time).  To the admin staff, it's just another 
routine task done on a regular basis, and if they're any good at all 
it gets taken care of quite reliably.

-Brent
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