Re: [Veritas-bu] Policy definition

On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 5:12 PM, <Mark.Donaldson AT cexp DOT com> wrote:

What do you mean by "archived".

If by "archive" you mean "backup with a very long retention", you'll
have to build a separate policy for the folder you want to treat
differently.

If by "archive" you mean "backup with a very long retention", then you need to educate your users that a backup is *not* an archive with a very long retention. You also likely need a different product.

We have this discussion with our users on a regular basis and they usually go away for a while and then somebody else will come back and ask the same thing. Today we had an *urgent* request for a tape archive. For the life of me, I can't see how a tape archive is urgent nor can I understand why an end user would care what type of media it's on. We'll go on a training rant again.

.../Ed

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