Welcome to my world. We are looking at the same thing. Our current
solution is to make a copy of everything to CD, and keep a copy of them
offsite.
My thoughts was to use something like HSM, and keep a backup, or if you
don't need it available, archive it for 5 years and let it expire at the
end.
Our use needs access on occasion, so we keep a vault full of CDs, with our
DR copy of the CDs, offsite. All the CDs are labeled with the date of data
and type of data (we generate 4 to 12 CDs daily, with a nominal day being 6
CDs, so 5 years worth is quite a few). Eventually I hope we move to DVDs,
but we will probably want to do one per day even if it is not full.
One company I worked for had a contract to do permanent storage for a
nuclear power plant. They did CDs for all the documents, and kept one
onsite and another offsite in another city, or at least that is what I heard
it was supposed to be that way. TSM and I think with HSM (adsm at the time)
managed the data. I don't have any more details on that implementation.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Khanduja, Opkar [SMTP:Opkar.Khanduja AT MOODYS DOT COM]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 2:58 PM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:
>
> Currently I am searching for a solution to save data for at least a 5 year
> retention period. This solution must be capable or retaining TBytes of
> data
> using TSM(which is my current backup solution) or ANY other backup
> solution
> that can handle the job. Any input about other solutions, such as virtual
> storage, would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> O.P.
> TSM admin
>
>
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