Folks, For those of you who are using a volume overflow location outside of your tape library, what are your recommendations for housing these external tapes?
I may have to overflow tapes, hopefully on a short term basis, but maybe not. Nevertheless, the data on these tapes is not duplicated which is of concern in and of itself. The idea of handling and externally storing these tapes for an unknown period of time is going against my better judgment, but I don't have the final word. Our library (ADIC I2K with LTO3 media) is located in an access controlled machine room, which is not particularly clean or, sadly, well climate controlled. The tapes I would pull out of the library would most likely be kept in this location. Initially I'll be ejecting 50 tapes, but this number will increase. I'm looking for suggestions for (scalable) racks or cabinets designed for this or a similar purpose. Anyone using anything interesting they can recommend? Thanks for your feedback. --Ruth Mitchell Cornell Theory Center