Gary,
When I say "application" I am talking about the appication running on the
computer (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_software).
It the "application" does not provide record level retention policy then
your options are very limited. This is why many financial institutions
still create microfiche of computer generated reports.
Companies who have moved away from microfiche have implemented report
management systems such as Control-D or RMDS to archive reports as
snapshots of records. These snapshots usually marry up to points in time
when policy notices or statements were generated.
When you consider that these systems are often backed up incrementally
there is often a need to tie the backup retention schedule to the record
retention schedule so that there is not a need to backup the supperset of
data unnecessarily.
Gerard
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