I created a policy of 100 years which sets the retention period to 'no
date'.
Because it doesn't have an official expiry date assigned to it, it
doesn't expire.

-----Original Message-----
From: Legato NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU]
On Behalf Of Oscar Olsson
Sent: Sunday, 8 January 2006 9:02 PM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [Networker] Long term retention question

On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, Peter L. Buschman wrote:

PLB> In archival circles, the term LE500 (Life Expectancy 500) denotes
that
PLB> media is expected to last for
PLB> 500 years under normal storage conditions, yet this is solely for
analog
PLB> media.  None of this exists for digital
PLB> media. There are few guarantees beyond 3 years, let alone 10 or 30
or 100
PLB> depending on which industry
PLB> you work in.

The SAIT-1 standard claims that media has an archival lifetime of 30 
years.

//Oscar

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