[Sussex] Backup Solutions Advice

[Matthew Macdonald-Wallace]

Quoting Jon Fautley <jfautley at redhat.com>:

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> Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote:
>> Hi all,
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>> I'm after a bit of advice on a backup solution.  We're looking at
>> switching to a single room to store our tapes in to replace our current
>> three firesafes.  Does anyone know or has anyone used a company to build
>> a new fire/blast-proof (we have a lot of potentially explosive chemicals
>> on site) building to house backup tapes etc?
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> Sorry - you're moving from storing your data in three separate fireproof
>  safes, to storing it all in one room?
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> I'll not even start to go into how stupid that idea is ;)

Currently the safes are all in the same room and that room is right  
next to nearly 20 metric tonnes of flamable solvent as well as various  
other spontaniously combustible substances and environmental  
pollutants.  Moving the data to a place that is away from all this  
seems to be slightly more sensible as at the moment we will probably  
only recover a large blob of plastic from the bottom of the safe! :)

The idea is that the firesafes will be replaced with a fire-room (if  
such a thing exists!), however I see your point about single point of  
failure etc...

Matt

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Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
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