Steve,

These are things I'm investigating, so I don't have everything nailed down 
yet.  I'm particularly focusing on small and medium businesses.  Here are 
my thoughts.  Backup procedures generally involve 2,3, or more media sets 
which are rotated within the facility for some time, then rotated off 
site.  I definitely agree on the need for off site storage.  (P.S.  I 
talked to someone at the GA Archives today.  He said that they learned from 
hurricane Katrina that the off site storage should be far far away.)  I 
haven't had a chance to check on the pricing and availability of off site 
storage in my city, Atlanta.  Also, I don't know how consistent the pricing 
and availability of those services are from city to city.  In many cases, 
smaller businesses may just put tapes in a a storage cabinet at ambient 
temperature and humidity on site.  In some cases, they use a safe deposit 
box for the off site requirement, which is also not climate 
controlled.  So, I was thinking it would be good to have a climate 
controlled cabinet for the media which are on site.  Also, if they had a 
second facility, they could use facility 2 for off site storage for 
facility 1 and vice versa.  It may or may not be practical.

Sincerely,

Ron

At 11/8/2006 08:57 AM -0600, you wrote:
>Ronald- Sounds like a job for your Locally owned off-site storage
>facility.  Not really sure why you'd want to take on the
>cost/responsibility of an in-house solution for such small quantities.
>Another question- How would you intend on handling the business
>continuity/disaster recovery aspects of the in-house solution?
>
>My 2 cents
>
>Steve Petersen CRM
>Records Manager
>Rockwell Collins Inc
>319.295.5244


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