Kathleen,

I misread your post. I thought you said backup tapes SHOULD be treated
as a records series. Sorry about that...and yes I agree:-)

Robert


On 8/15/07, Gary Grieme <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> <I have been in several discussions lately where this philosophy is being
> called into question.  That backup tapes, even though assigned a short
> retention period, should appear on the records retention schedule, and that
> the corporate records management group should take responsibility for
> sending
> them to storage and retrieving and rotating them.  The main driver is that
> RM
> group has staff and IT doesn't.  This is new to me and I would like to find
> out what other companies are doing.  What is the best practice today?>
>
> Regarding staffing for rotation, retrieval and storage, it's less a question
> of best practice than business process:  whichever group can do it most
> efficiently should handle it.
>
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