Bill,

It is not uncommon at all to only send DR tapes to a single source.

That is not to say that there should not be other forms of backup for non
DR purposes, but in the event of a catostrophic disaster most companies
only have one fallback.

Keep in mind that some enterprises literally send thousands of tapes
offsite per day, to replicate this to allow for errors by the offsite
provider is not an option.

Gerard

On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 08:29:24 -0500, Roach, Bill J. <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

>I am a bit curious about a disaster recovery program that places all of
>its eggs in a single backup   basket.  The organizations I am familiar
>with have multiple sets of backups.  The loss of all would be
>catastrophic.  The loss of a single days tapes would be a bit painful.
>In my mind, if the loss of a single set of backup tapes has catastrophic
>implications for the organization, they need to rethink their business
>resumption strategy.

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