We just recently had a client ask for this.  We determined how many tapes we
thought they would use to store their data and multiplied that by the cost of
the tapes. Then we made a wild-assed guess at how many hours of our time they
might require over the next three years and multiplied that by our corporate
internal hourly billing rate of $72/hour and then tacked on a little
something to cover the aggravation of having to keep track of the stuff at
all.   Added all that together, hoped they'd turn us down and then sent them
the bill when they didn't.




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Subject: Charge Back

ADSMer's,

        We have a situation here, in which certain DBA's want data
(non-financial) kept for an absurd length of time (3 years).  We've
already told them we won't do backups that long, so they insisted on
archiving.  This will consume a lot of resources, and we would like to
develop a charge back system.  Has anyone ever set something like this
up with ADSM??  Any comments would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Rick Smith
Maritz, Inc.
Storage & Security Administration
smithrr AT maritz DOT com
(314) 827-1584