This is basically what I'm doing, in particular with database servers that are 
offlined (mostly due to data consolidation).  We have to keep that data 
available for reports and other queries anyway.

I don't consider it conservative; Rather, its required (due to regulatory 
restrictions - SAS/SOX/SEC and other alphabet soups I'm probably forgetting).

I *have* made exceptions for clients that no one cares about anymore, and its 
also cleared higher up.

Regarding those deleted clients - will the indexes on them go away eventually 
(like normal clients) or do they just sit there?  If the latter, I may consider 
re-adding them just for a week or two, to get them flushed out.

--TSK
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Tim Kimball
sungak.net



Preston de Guise wrote:
> 
> Regarding the extra clients listed in NMC - I don't particularly see  
> that as a major concern, though I'd typically recommend using a  
> comment field for such clients starting with say, "Decommissioned" or  
> "Decomm" if you want to be more economical. Thus, in any view they're  
> readily identifiable.
> 
> My definition of "clearly time to remove <the index>" is at a point  
> beyond that of the longest retention time. E.g., if a client was being  
> backed up with a 10 year retention time, then the index would be kept  
> for 10 years. Again, I see the cost of rebuilding indices/rescanning  
> old media, etc, as exceeding that of a bit of extra disk space to  
> maintain the indices on disk.
> 
> I'm obviously conservative in my approach, but it's the way I like to  
> work with backup :-)
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Preston.
> 
> --
> Preston de Guise
> 


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