Offsite tape storage in Shanghai

January 25, 2010 2:42 AM

Can anybody recommend offsite storage in Shanghai for backup tapes?
posted by m3thod4 to Computers & Internet (2 answers total)

Depending on the type/complexity/length of your backup cycle, consider using a shipping service to pickup and re-deliver your daily backup tapes. Example: Fed Ex picks up your previous days' back up tape each day, on "Next Day" surface delivery back to yourself, as it delivers, to you, automatically, the day-before-yesterday's backup tape, from its pickup of the previous day. Each of your most recent daily backups spends 24 hours offsite from you in the Fed Ex package handling system, and is automatically delivered back to you, in delivery rotation, for the low, low price of a local, surface daily pickup and delivery, and you have the majority of your backup library, except for your most recent tape, on site, at all times, in case you need to start a restore.

If you need more tapes in an offsite rotation, just arrange with someone across town to accept delivery and return your packages to you, on an appropriate rotation and delay. I've used this strategy with various IT buddies, to keep mutual grandfather-father-son style archive libraries completely off-site, at my buddies homes, with minimal hassle and cost to either them or me, and in as good a delivery order circulation as I ever got from Iron Mountain, or other commercial arrangements, at a lot lower cost.
posted by paulsc at 4:30 PM on February 19, 2010

Response by poster: Ended up going with Crown. They were cheaper than GRM.
posted by m3thod4 at 12:58 PM on February 24, 2010