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[Veritas-bu] Retention Periods and Industry practices.

2003-02-12 12:50:32
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Retention Periods and Industry practices.
From: jonw AT n2h2 DOT com (Jon Walton)
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 09:50:32 -0800 (PST)
One thing you could consider is switching to the 3 month retention period
for daily backups, but perform a single monthly backup with a retention
period of 1 year.   That might be a happy medium.

-Jon

On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Robert Johannes wrote:

> At my site, the bosses are thinking of reducing the retention level to 3
> months from 1 year, in an effort to save on the amount of money we spend
> on tapes per year.  Before this happens however, I would like to gather
> information as far as what is considered standard practice.  What do you
> all do?  Please respond with the sight that standard backups are not an
> archival system, and indeed, the concern at my site is not archiving but
> normal backup retention practices.
>
> thanks
> roberto
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