< Michel El Salsero wrote:
<dealing with backup tape issues on records management program, 

I schedule the backup tapes as a series with the retention period being
whatever the-powers-that-be seems to think they need. I make sure that
the description of the series includes that the purpose is to restore a
system in the event of a catastrophic failure or unintentional
destruction of information (to copy from Larry). This way you are
complying with your retention schedule.

Remember folks, a "piece of paper" can have different retention periods
depending on which file it is put.  I don't know how many of you
remember the multi-copies carbon forms with their white, yellow, pink,
blue, and green flimsies, but I do. Each color was filed in a different
set of files and the retention periods may have been different depending
on the purpose of the file. Back in the middle ages of filing when I was
working as a temp summers between college semester, some jobs involved
me filing those colored flimsies.

Trish Broud
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