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Ok, I think we've hammered the bringing data home part... The guy wants to know how to get of tapes and back up 2TBs of data effectively... I suggest you get a rotation of External Hard Drives, or internal ones you can put in a dock and a good case for transport. I can't imagine how long those tapes take, yet the failure rate associated with them. Encrypt them, regardless of where they go. I've done trails on my restores and encryption had no effect on restore speed. Or, if the data doesn't change to much, you can backup to the cloud somewhere. Sam From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 8:55 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: backing up too much data +1 Seems that a wise investment would be a quality fire-resistant safe big enough to hold a fire resistant lock box Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, & Security ' Security is an ongoing process, not a one time event ! ' From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 9:29 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: backing up too much data Should he really be taking the data home? That might be opening up a different can of worms (the likelihood of his copy of the data getting lost is significantly greater than of all your machines blowing up) If he's so concerned, and you don't want to pay for services like Iron Mountain (or their less expensive alternatives), then buy a tape drive for him and make copies of the tapes -- encrypted copies. -ASB: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 8:54 AM, Holstrom, Don <[email protected]> wrote: I have been backing up all our data to tape drives. A vice president of the Museum likes to take a copy home regularly in case our machines blow up... But now we have nearly two terabytes of data. Tape drives go up to 1.7 T's, but I can only find libraries going higher. What other options do I have, so the VP can still take home a copy of the data? Extra HDs take so much time. ~ 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/> ~
