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That border thing can be picky. We have plants in Mexico, UK and used to
have Canada, (among other locations). I remember people having to have
presentations to COMMON in Toronto faxed over because they couldn't bring
the technology represented in the overheads across. Don't you love
medieval solutions to 21st century issues? We solved our problem by
closing operations in Canada. Trying to restrict companies to using local
labor just forces the companies to go elsewhere. We've centralized our
400's. This works fine for handling the data.
As others have said. Be careful of weather. We lost a trunkful of
diskettes years back. Courier wanted to sneak out early to go hunting and
left the media in a hot vehicle.
Your rotation sounds good.
Just remember, by not using a local company though, you'll have a minimum
of a two day downtime in case of major failure just getting the media back.
Rob Berendt
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Remember the Cole!
D.BALE@handleman.co
m To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Sent by: cc:
owner-midrange-l@mi Subject: Help w/ offsite
backups
drange.com
05/03/01 03:42 PM
Please respond to
MIDRANGE-L
The auditors are beating their drums around here and have decided to
implement
a requirement for off-site backup for our branch AS/400s. This is coming
to
me second-hand, so I don't know the specifics, except that we are now
requiring our branches to send to us (at corporate) via 2-day express mail
the
backup tapes (cartidges) from the Thursday night backups. We will have a
3-week cycle of tapes. Week 1 arrives, we send back week 3. Week 2
arrives,
we send back week 1. Week 3 arrives, we send back week 2. This is a
quick-to-implement, temporary plan to satisfy the auditors immediately; in
the
near future, we will be looking at off-site storage services local to the
branch, as well as on-site safe storage, among other options. So pleeezze,
no
lectures on all the shortcomings of this plan. We know the shortcomings -
'nuff said.
Questions:
How should we go about *safely* packaging this media?
Someone brought up the concern of stray magnetic waves that could hit the
media between point A and point B, effectively destroying the data. Is
this a
real concern? If so, how does one effectively protect magnetic media when
shipping it?
Anybody know of import/export rules for this type of material for Mexico,
Canada, and the U.K.?
Anybody doing this recommend (or not) any particular delivery service
company?
TIA.
- Dan
Dan Bale says "Ban Dale!"
IT - AS/400
Handleman Company
248-362-4400 Ext. 4952
D.Bale@Handleman.com
Quiquid latine dictum sit altum viditur.
(Whatever is said in Latin seems profound.)
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