Re: [Veritas-bu] Quarterly Backups and Calendar Schedule
2008-03-31 20:31:17
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 05:48:58PM -0400, Curtis Preston wrote:
> A 7 year old backup is a 7 year old backup. It's not an archive, and
> 7 years from now when you're trying to use that 7 year old backup as
> an archive and trying to retrieve something from it (you retrieve from
> archives. You restore from backups), you'll know what I meant.
> You'll rue the day you decided to keep a backup for 7 years. That's
> all I'm going to say about that.
Not worrying about the initial issue, what is the biggest problem you
see with using the backups as archives? I'm often dealing with 7 year
(or supposedly longer) retentions at clients. What should I be prepared
for?
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