> We have been going over our retention policies and came across some legal
> concerns.  For this hypothetical situation, imagine a file that has been
> deleted from the client and has gone through the expiration process but
> still physically remains on one of the offsite tapes because they haven't
> yet been through reclamation.  I know that it is well known that you can't
> restore data without the database, but the file still physically resides
on
> the tape, even though it has logically been deleted from the DB.  Is it
> technically possible to use some type of data recovery service to pull the
> expired files off of the offsite tape?  Could someone please clarify why
or
> why not this is possible?  Even if you could extract the data, would you
> ever be able to read it?
>
>
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>     John Monahan
>     Network Administrator
>     Liberty Diversified Industries
>     (763) 536-6677
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