On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 4:51 PM, Deanna Hauck <
[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>
> I am the records manager at a small liberal arts college. I am working on
> reducing the retention of our email backup tapes and was asked to survey
> what the retention is at other educational institutions and what authority
> have you used to make that decision. Please advise.
>

be sure and conduct a search of the listserv archives. lots of discussions
in the past about email backup tapes.
You'll find that the general consensus is that backup tapes are for disaster
recovery purposes and not for records retention.

If you don't have it you may want to go to the ARMA International bookstore
and purchase a copy of the ANSI/ARMA standard Managing Electronic  Messages
as Records there is also a standard there for titled Retention Management
for Records and Information that is good also


-- 
Peter Kurilecz CRM CA
[log in to unmask]
Richmond, Va
http://twitter.com/RAINbyte
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/RAINbyte/
Information not relevant for my reply has been deleted to reduce the
electronic footprint and to save the sanity of digest subscribers

List archives at http://lists.ufl.edu/archives/recmgmt-l.html
Contact [log in to unmask] for assistance
To unsubscribe from this list, click the below link. If not already present, place UNSUBSCRIBE RECMGMT-L or UNSUB RECMGMT-L in the body of the message.
mailto:[log in to unmask]