Depends on whether you are part of FINRA or other regulatory bodies. We have to 
archive all email for 3 years, both internal to external and 
internal-to-internal. Oh, and all IM messages as well. We use EmailXtender and 
EMC Centera. Don't get me started about the Centera backup module for Networker.



-----Original Message-----
From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On 
Behalf Of MIchael Leone
Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 1:00 PM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [Networker] Tracking recycled media....

EMC NetWorker discussion <NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU> wrote on 
03/28/2008 03:13:27 PM:

> >
> > Not true. We have to comply as well as we can. Which means restoring 
those
> > EOM backups, and searching those.
> 
> Yes, but you're not getting *all* email, you're getting a small snapshot
> of the email, based on one "sample period" (assuming you only do one
> backup per day).

Yes, we have mentioned to the CIO to re-inforce that fact to the 
requestors. We still have the request. :-) Most lawyers these days realize 
that very few companies save "all email" - that is, a full backup every 
calendar day, going back the better part of a decade. But just about every 
firm or organization keeps EOMs ...


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