And it goes even further than not understanding ADSM.  The problem comes from 
believing the way it has always been done is the best way.  Weekly full backups 
kept for a year, daily incrementals kept for a few weeks.  This method has 
always allowed the customer to recover to some distant point in the past.  Why? 
 Not because he really needed to, but because he could!

This is really a "just in case" mentality at work.  There are probably no 
regulatory requirements to save "all" data, but rather a requirement to save 
"all" data of a specific type, say payroll data.  Saving all payroll data is 
fairly simple, even on a daily basis.  Saving all data is much harder.  
Somebody needs to start raising the awareness of what archive really is.

Kelly