[Klug-general] Backup Solutions Advice

[Dan Attwood]

or the other way to look at it is there's a massive explosion/ fire in
which all the offices/ warehouse/factory is totalled, apart from this
little shed sat smoulding amoungst the destruction with the tapes in
it.

On 29/11/06, Mike Evans <mike at tandem.f9.co.uk> wrote:
> Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote:
>
> >
> > They do understand what they are doing, these are our backup tapes  that
> > we use to restore (should we need to) on a day-by-day basis.  We  do
> > have a Disaster recovery plan which has been fully tested and we do
> > have other backups that are kept off-site.
> >
> > Hope this reassures you,
> >
> > M.
>
> Hope I'm not pitching in where it's not wanted but, given that you have
> a disaster recovery plan and full off-site backups I have to wonder why
> you would want a blast-proof store for your backups.  In the event of
> such an explosion I would have thought that your disaster recovery plan
> would be swinging into full force.  Ditto for a fire of any significance.
>
> Whilst working for a financial institution last year I noticed their
> view was that any backups kept at an office site were purely for the
> convenience of restore in the case of finger trouble with the delete
> key. (Or that well known SQL statement: the delete without a where
> clause - why did they allow that in the syntax?)
>
> So the only thing you really need to worry about is whether, in the
> event of such a fire or explosion, your data remains secure against
> theft.  There is a simple solution to that: store the tapes on top of
> the explosives.  That way your data will be perfectly secure :-)
>
> You can tell we had a strange day at the office today!  On a more
> serious note  - my sister's partner does work with explosives, so I
> could enquire if it would help.
>
> Mike Evans
>
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