Tim Mooney said:
>Why, you ask?  Because I work for an institution in an American state
>that has "Open Records" laws.  If NetWorker hasn't relabled a
recycleable
>tape and an information discovery request comes in, I'm obligated to do
>the restore.  If we force NetWorker to recycle tapes as soon as all
data
>on the tape has passed our retention window, rather than leaving it to
>NetWorker's whims, we have greater control over our data retention.

Actually, according to the recently updated Federal Rules for Civil
Procedures, this now applies to all states.  What you've described is
considered "residual data," the likes of a file that's deleted on a
filesystem that can make it un-deleted.  Residual data is discoverable.

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