I understand your concern about the 'loose-ability' of such a small footprint storage device. I would not recommend to my client the use of a ny USB storage device for DR without encryption of some amount of the data. My own idea for using it would be to carry the backups of our CORE systems t hat would be used at the hotsite to restore the rest of the user data from encrypted tapes. Each member of the mainframe DR team would have a copy s o that they could head to the hotsite as soon as possible. We could get the re and get this part of the system restored before ANY of our encrypted tape s could get there from the offsite storage vendor.
/Tom Kern On Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:29:37 -0500, Mike Walter <mike.wal...@hewitt.com> wrote: >Having read multiple media reports of companies losing tapes containing >confidential information, are you sure you just want to put your DASD >backups on a physically-tiny thumb drive? I lost my first 16G thumb dri ve >within months even though I was pretty careful with it (having paid out of >pocket for it a year ago). > >Most people don't have 3480, 3490, or 3590 tape drives sitting around to >read company data. Most people _do_ have PC's with USB ports, even thou gh >trying to figure out whatever format a 3390 dump might be in would be >quite a challenge. But it would still be a matter of getting your >security officer to sign off on something s/he doesn't really understand . > >If you still think it's a good idea (and it *does* have merit), "do you >want encryption with that order"? :-) > >Any other considerations to discuss before making recommendations to IBM ? > >Mike Walter >Hewitt Associates
