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On Wednesday, January 19, 2000 2:19 AM, Gunnar Uhr [SMTP:guhr AT IT.KS DOT SE] 
wrote:
> Hello
>
> Can You give me some ideas to how I can solve a situation ?
>
> I'm among other things responsible for backing up some NT-servers
> (ADSM-clients/nodes) into a ADSM-server (ver 3, something)
> Mostly we use the NT-servers only as a platform for databases like
> Ms-SQL, Sybase and DB2 (or UDB)
> and let different applications communicate with them. (-
> Ordering-systems, Journal-systems, Personal-administrative
> systems and so on )
> We dump the databases to files on disk and keep them for a (rather
> short) period of time.
>
> I find it (ADSM) very good to "secure operation" and preventing longer
> production stops and so on.
>
> Now I have what I think is a different "problem":
>
> My boss want's me to find some "easy" solution to more of the "long-term
>
> storage problem" as well.
> You know, when for examples the auditors (is it called like that ?)
> wants to "check the books" for example...
> ...when someone wants to check up some information from an order seven
> months ago...
> ...or to check some invoice from the ordering system five years from
> now.
>
>
> I guess it's an easy task for some of You wizars and magicians out
> there, but I'm still a novice to a lot of this    ;-)
>
> Can You please give me some hints, tips and points of views ?
>
> Is making CD:s of exported data a possible solution ?
>
> Gunnar Uhr
>
>
>
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>
> Gunnar Uhr
> IT-Service
> KAROLINSKA HOSPITAL
> 171 76  STOCKHOLM               e-mail          gunnar.uhr AT ks DOT se
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