Re: Alternatives to Iron Mountain

[Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am curious why one doesn't back up directly to the HA server, and let 
the HA Site manage the back up tapes and storage?  Then there is no 
driving, no latency, no in-house function beyond auditing and testing.



rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Not a bad concept.  However, this brings us back to who drives it between 
> plants.  There is no daily courier and all that other stuff previously 
> discussed.
>
> It's still good to back up to tapes however.
>
> If you screw up the data on one machine it's quickly replicated to the 
> other.  Journalling helps, a lot, in recovering this data, but there's 
> some time when a restore is needed.
>
> Rob Berendt
>