[Novalug] carrying tapes

James Ewing Cottrell 3rd JECottrell3@Comcast.NET
Tue Nov 18 19:44:37 EST 2008


Why don't you back up to disk instead?

JIM

Miguel Gonzalez wrote:
> hi,
> 
>  We have a tape robot (LTO tapes) for backing up hundreds of servers and user machines. 
> 
>  We rotate those tapes once a week and move them to an archive in a firesafe. 
> 
>  Right now we are rotating around 80-100 tapes each time, which is a big number of tapes to carry using a trolley suitcase. Besides this is a really butchered way of carrying tapes (they are not hold tight so they move when they are carried), it makes really unmanageable swapping that big number of tapes.
> 
>  I remember from my previous job seeing lying around some cases where you could store tapes (and they are hold tight). I guess there must be a sophisticated way to carry those tapes (wheels will be a plus!) and make swapping a thing of just putting the case inside the firesafe and taking the old one and not having to take out each tape by one by one and do the same thing to put the new tapes in the firesafe.
> 
>  I hope it doesn't sound too complicated.
> 
>  Miguel
> 
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