That's why I advise people to use bplabel to relabel every tape in the scratch 
pool as soon as it gets there.  Nobody that I know (and I know some pretty 
sharp people) knows how to get past the "last file on tape" marker that gets 
put at the end of that label.  (Every time you write or append to a tape, the 
last file on the tape has a special file mark at the end of it saying it's the 
last file on tape.  Every device driver in the world will stop there and not go 
farther when reading the tape.  When writing to the tape, of course, it will 
overwrite that marker and then write another one at the end of what you append 
to the tape.)
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W. Curtis Preston, Author of Backup & Recovery and Using SANs and NAS
VP Data Protection
GlassHouse Technologies

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From: netbackup-bounces at backupcentral.com [mailto:netbackup-bounces at 
backupcentral.com] On Behalf Of WEAVER, Simon
Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 6:34 AM
To: 'Bob Stump'; 'Veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu'
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Infinity backup and level of infinity

Bob
As long as you have the Media on tape, even if it the media has expired from 
the Catalog itself, the tapes can be imported? That counts as being able to 
retain the Data and restore it (although just not as quick!)
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Regards
Simon Weaver
3rd Line Technical Support
Windows Domain Administrator 
EADS Astrium Limited, B23AA IM (DCS)
Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU
Email: Simon.Weaver at Astrium-eads.net
-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Stump [mailto:StumpB at michigan.gov] 
Sent: 06 December 2006 14:31
To: WEAVER, Simon; 'Veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu'
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Infinity backup and level of infinity
BEWARE that many times you are legally obligated to maintain 7 years of data.
Unfortunately, you may be required to ALSO provide data past the 7 year legal 
requirement IF you have it and IF you can restore it.
One company I was at, determined that infinity should only be 7 years in order 
to avoid a court order to provide the older data.
They not only had me change the current policies to use a 7 year retention, 
they also had me recalculate the expiration dates on existing images that were 
set to infinite (2038) retention.
That edict came from their legal department. 
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DISCLAIMER:
I am not a lawyer and I've never played one on the tele.


>>> "WEAVER, Simon" <simon.weaver at astrium.eads.net> 12/6/2006 1:59 AM >>>
Guys
Regarding the "retension" setting under any schedule. After 1 year, it moves 
from Infinity Level 9 to Level 24.
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Just what level should be used it you want to retain something for say 10 years.
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Thanks
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Regards
Simon Weaver
3rd Line Technical Support
Windows Domain Administrator 
EADS Astrium Limited, B23AA IM (DCS)
Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU
Email: Simon.Weaver at Astrium-eads.net
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