We do weekly fulls retained for 5 weeks and daily level1's retained for
8 days.  We do approximately 1300 backups daily.

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[mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Jon Walton
Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 12:51 PM
To: Robert Johannes
Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Retention Periods and Industry practices.


One thing you could consider is switching to the 3 month retention
period for daily backups, but perform a single monthly backup with a
retention
period of 1 year.   That might be a happy medium.

-Jon

On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Robert Johannes wrote:

> At my site, the bosses are thinking of reducing the retention level to

> 3 months from 1 year, in an effort to save on the amount of money we 
> spend on tapes per year.  Before this happens however, I would like to

> gather information as far as what is considered standard practice.  
> What do you all do?  Please respond with the sight that standard 
> backups are not an archival system, and indeed, the concern at my site

> is not archiving but normal backup retention practices.
>
> thanks
> roberto
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