Offsite backups

[Anonymous]

Hey all, What does everyone do for offsite backups? I have a number of LTO3 tapes that really need to get stored offsite, along with weekly backups that need to be taken offsite and brought back 2 a month, and I’m not sure what the best bet is. A bank vault seems kinda small ( 75-100 LTO3 tapes), and sending them home is not a good idea. So Does anybody use a service for such a thing? something like iron mountain? How does it work? Is it crazy expensive?
Thanks,
Brent

[MDhaliwal]

I used to use Iron Mountain, when I worked in an office environment. We’d just schedule them to come by daily in the morning to pickup one of their metal boxes that’s barcoded. We’d let them know when we were going to be closed so that they wouldn’t come and so forth. They’d also drop back the old boxes on the date we specified when they were originally picked up. Never had too much of an issue. There are other companies that provide this service, but this is probably the most common and a great practice for true disaster recovery; something that too many folks neglect.

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