Little late, but.....Funny you say this. At a previous job, we kept our monthly/quarterly/yearly backups at a local branch. Dailies went to IM for 2-week rotation.
Don Guyer Systems Engineer - Information Services Prudential, Fox & Roach/Trident Group 431 W. Lancaster Avenue Devon, PA 19333 Direct: (610) 993-3299 Fax: (610) 650-5306 don.gu...@prufoxroach.com -----Original Message----- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 1:10 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: backing up too much data I assume for the moment (further data might invalidate this assumption) that Iron Moutain and the like are not within budget. Having made that assumption, Ben has uttered Magic Words there: Bank Vault OP's org almost certainly has a bank account with a local branch. I'd bet in a place like DC either that branch, or another bank nearby, has safe deposit boxes for rent, relatively inexpensively. Makes for a nice lunch hour detour, I think. Kurt On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 09:57, Ben Scott <mailvor...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Erik Goldoff <egold...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Seems that a wise investment would be a quality fire-resistant safe big >> enough to hold a fire resistant lock box > > Fire safes aren't what most people think they are. Many of them are > rated for paper only, not machine media. Most of the ones which are > rated for machine media give you an hour, maybe two. Unless it's a > bank vault, assume a serious structure fire is going to kill whatever > you've got in your fire safe. > > Depending the specifics of the organization and the people and the > data, I'd worry more about a local disaster than about the VP going > rogue and taking the data with him. Stolen/misplaced media can be > addressed by encryption. > > -- Ben > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
