"Matthew Huff" <mhuff AT ox DOT com> wrote on 03/31/2008 01:28:15 PM:

> Depends on whether you are part of FINRA or other regulatory bodies.
> We have to archive all email for 3 years, both internal to external 
> and internal-to-internal. Oh, and all IM messages as well. We use 
> EmailXtender and EMC Centera. Don't get me started about the Centera
> backup module for Networker.

Yeah, there are always exceptions. :-) I mentioned archiving to my boss. 
He says that HP has an archiving solution (based on their EVA line of 
SANs). Who knows? We'll see ....

> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:[email protected].
> EDU] On Behalf Of MIchael Leone
> Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 1:00 PM
> To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: [Networker] Tracking recycled media....
> 
> EMC NetWorker discussion <NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU> wrote on 
> 03/28/2008 03:13:27 PM:
> 
> > >
> > > Not true. We have to comply as well as we can. Which means restoring 

> those
> > > EOM backups, and searching those.
> > 
> > Yes, but you're not getting *all* email, you're getting a small 
snapshot
> > of the email, based on one "sample period" (assuming you only do one
> > backup per day).
> 
> Yes, we have mentioned to the CIO to re-inforce that fact to the 
> requestors. We still have the request. :-) Most lawyers these days 
realize 
> that very few companies save "all email" - that is, a full backup every 
> calendar day, going back the better part of a decade. But just about 
every 
> firm or organization keeps EOMs ...
> 
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