Chapter 5: Media
Handling Cartridges
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• Ensure that anyone who handles tape has been properly trained in
handling and shipping procedures. This includes operators, users,
programmers, archival services, and shipping personnel.
• Ensure that any service or contract personnel who perform archiving
are properly trained in media-handling procedures.
• Include media-handling procedures as part of any services contract.
• Define and make personnel aware of data recovery procedures.
Ensure Proper
Packaging
• When shipping a cartridge, use the original or better packaging.
• Always ship or store a cartridge in a jewel case.
• Use only a recommended shipping container that securely holds the
cartridge in its jewel case during transportation.
• Never ship a cartridge in a commercial shipping envelope. Always
place it in a box or package.
• If you ship the cartridge in a cardboard box or a box of a sturdy
material, ensure the following:
• Place the cartridge in polyethylene plastic wrap or bags to
protect it from dust, moisture, and other contaminants.
• Double-box the cartridge (place it inside a box, then place that
box inside the shipping box) and add padding between the two
boxes.
Provide Proper
Acclimation and
Environmental
Conditions
• Before using a cartridge, let it acclimate to the normal operating
environment for 1 hour. If condensation is visible on the cartridge,
wait an additional hour.
• Ensure that all surfaces of a cartridge are dry before inserting it.
• Do not expose the cartridge to moisture or direct sunlight.
• Do not expose recorded or blank cartridges to stray magnetic fields
of greater than 100 oersteds (for example, terminals, motors, video
equipment, X-ray equipment, or fields that exist near high-current
cables or power supplies). Such exposure can cause the loss of
recorded data or make the blank cartridge unusable.
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