Tape carrying

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Ronco

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A bit of a weird question... but to anyone who carts LTO's around, what do you use for safe totage?

Since I've moved my main servers into colo's I've discontinued the Recall DPS service, and I'm now swapping the tapes. It's now more of a third line of defence in DR, so I'm no longer taking daily backups - but I do like having a complete restore environment of my crucial stuff to hand. The Recall guy had a a small Hardigg case to take my tapes away, but that's OTT.

I'm thinking something like a padded over-bag with maybe some degree of magnetic protection so that it can sit in a regular bag and deal with inadvertent spills, etc.

Any suggestions?
 
Was going to mention a Hardigg case, but I guess you don't want one. You could just use the plain plastic cases that the tapes came with. They should be sufficient if you aren't too rough on them.
 
The small ones (Hardigg) are way too bulky to carry as part of what I do normally, and while I have larger Hardiggs which can of course accomodate a tape as well as what I carry daily, walking around with a Storm Case as my main bag is not my idea of fun.

I was wondering if there was some sort of specific compact carrier that I can pop the tape + or - case into for protected portage in a normal bag.
 
Depending on how many tapes you need to carry, a camcorder or camera padded case would do the trick, like Lowepro. There are big ones for cameras and accessories.
 
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