Steve,

If it's important enough you might want to look into WORM (Write Once Read
Many) technology for these backups.  That would insure the media could never
be overwritten regardless of attempts to do so but it can be appended until
the media is full.  I'm not too familiar with it but Sony makes an AIT WORM
drive and of course CD's and DVD's can be WORM as well.

If you're keeping the backups for 7 years it's unlikely that you will want
to reuse the media after that anyway.  One other thing, I think you'd want
to do something to keep track of these backups that is independent of
Networker just to make sure that changes in your backup solution don't cause
you to lose that information

Dave

David Werth
Garmin AT, Inc
Salem, Oregon
dave.werth AT garmin DOT com
-----Original Message-----
From: Law, Steve [UK] [mailto:Steve.Law AT CGI-EUROPE DOT COM] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 3:28 AM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: [Networker] Protecting specific volumes / pools

...

Due to SOX compliance mgmt now want specific files on our Notes servers
to be backed up daily, removed offsite daily and kept for 7 years. Our
solution is to introduce a new set of 5 daily tapes which will go round
and round and never be relabelled so that the Notes files (only about
700mb) keep being appended to these tapes until they fill up and are
replaced.   


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