Hi Everyone,

Just had a conversation with our Dept mgr about retention of email
backups.  After the discussion I did some research on line and in the
archives, but
didn't find much.  So . . . .I'll ask the list . . . .

We run Notes email using TDP for Notes.  We have a retention of 2 weeks for
the
backups.  Mgt wants to know if the the 2 weeks retention has some fudge in
it.  My
answer is "YES", there is fudge in the following:
      - expired data may not free up an entire tape, just part of a tape
      -  the tapes go back into the scratch pool until TSM needs/requests
it
      - we have scratch volumes not being reused for 4 days to allow for a
            4 days db restore window

Basically, he wants to know if there is any way that when the data expires
it becomes
completely unusable/unrecoverable, even by someone with the
time/money/motivation
to take a scratch tape and piece together what's on it.

Any thoughts or comments on how to implement this, or other issues around
it, are
greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Richard Rhodes



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