>>We would like to find out what durations other companies use for this type
of retention/destruction schedule?<<

As you have probably heard already, retention timeframe is based on content,
not format or storage location.  Information has a life cycle.  Setting the
retention timeframe based on media is like establishing a single retention
timeframe for paper:

IT Recommendation: Throw it away as soon as possible.
Accountants Recommendation: Keep it permanently, just in case.
Janitor's Recommendation: Hang the founder's photo back on the wall and
flush the toilet.

Hope this helps.

Bill R

(who must be talking to Chris way too much)

List archives at http://lists.ufl.edu/archives/recmgmt-l.html
Contact [log in to unmask] for assistance