I agree with you Larry.  This has long been a misunderstood point.  A backup
is just that and not meant for "records storage".  These tapes (or whatever
media you use) are intended to put you back to an instance prior to a mishap
and not for regular retrieval.  Essentially, I would not call backup media a
record.

On 7/3/08, Larry Medina <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > How do you segregate records with different retention periods on your
> > backups?
>
>
> This is an interesting question... if you think about the reason backup
> tapes are made to begin with (to restore a system in the event of a
> catastrophic failure or unintentional destruction of information) there is
> no legitimate reason to go to the effort of segregating information on them
> by a retention period.   They should mirror your storage systems that they
> support, and IF those systems have information segregated, then the backups
> would as well.
>
> I can understand how this question would be pertinent to ARCHIVE tapes, but
> it doesn't seem to pertain to backup tapes.
>
> Larry
>
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