Greetings

We are in the midst of responding to a discovery request (yea).   Of course the 
information of interest is beyond the retention time for the client.

We have attempted to explain to the lawyers (using small words) that after all 
of the savesets expire on the media where they were written, the media becomes 
eligible for re-use.   At our site, essentially all pools can recycle to and 
from each other.  Their response was, well, can you show us what tapes used to 
have the information of interest and when it was recycled for another client's 
backup?

I don't think that this is possible, I can't think of where this information 
would be logged.  We do run Backup Advisor, so maaaaybe it's in there, but 
frankly I'm deeply underwhelmed by BA, I'd give my eye teeth for SQL connector 
to the damn NW databases instead (but that's another rant)

I've opened a ticket with EMC to confirm my suspicion, but if someone could 
point out an approach, I'd be deeply appreciative.

Current environment
NW 7.3.3 running on win2k3.  Clients are backed up in a client-to-CDL followed 
by clone-from-CDL-to-physical-media arrangement.

Thanks in advance!
-brerrabbit

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