Veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Quarterly Backups and Calendar Schedule

2008-03-31 20:31:17
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Quarterly Backups and Calendar Schedule
From: A Darren Dunham <ddunham AT taos DOT com>
To: VERITAS-BU AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 00:16:58 +0000
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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Darren Dunham                                           ddunham AT taos DOT com
Senior Technical Consultant         TAOS            http://www.taos.com/
Got some Dr Pepper?                           San Francisco, CA bay area
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