Will Parsons wrote:

> We used to run a "Delete & manually re-label" system, until the current
> solution was put in place in 2003. We now set our Browse & Retention
> policies on each client to 28 days, so the media should become free
> after 28 days (+ about a week for dependant save sets to expire). We run
> 1 Full and 6 inc backups each week, so we rotate our tapes on a 5 week
> cycle.
> 
> This means that... the operators don't have the option of
> deleting/relabelling the wrong tape - because this disappears from their
> list of things to do.
> 
> To keep your new tapes safe, I'd recommend a new Media Pool, and a new
> Group. Use the Media Pool associations to direct data from the new Group
> onto these tapes. If the SOX data is "everything from the Notes server",
> then the Browse & Retention policies for the client could be set to 7
> years. If it's just a sub-set of the data from the client, then you can
> create a second instance of the Notes Client , containing ONLY the SOX
> data save-set, and use the Group itself to force the data retention policy.
> 
> We use this for a once a month "tape out tape" for some systems...
> "savegrp -e year -l full Yourgroup". unfortunately you can't set the
> data life (-e year) in the group config, so you need a batch job to
> start savegrp with these parameters, rather than just letting the
> Networker Scheduler start it for you.
> 
> Hope that's useful?

Very well explained IMO. This is a much better scenario than Steve
described.

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