I don't want to put words in Gary's mouth but I suspect he (and
others) is looking for a position taken by ARMA, AIIM or other
professional organizations that retaining for DR purposes only is
considered a "best practice" and should not as an archive.  I don't
believe neither has a stance, not that I am aware of anyway.

The Sedona Conference discusses this topic in Comment 2.e. of their
"Best Practice Guidelines & Commentary for Managing Information &
Records in the Electronic Age."  The document available free on
https://thesedonaconference.org/ but requires you to establish an
account.  From the Comment: "Retention of disaster recovery backup
media beyond the period necessary to recover from a true disaster can
have unintended consequences should the organization become involved
in litigation."

On a side but related note I attended a conference sponsored by Sedona
in March.  The topic of disastery recovery backups and their use came
up during a duscussion on eDiscovery.  The conclusion by many, some
who were representing Fortune 500 companies - backups should be used
for DR purposes only.  Using them for any other purpose could have
costly consequences.

Bruce White, CRM, PMP
Radnor, PA
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On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 10:12 AM, Lewis, Jeffrey <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Not sure if this is what you are looking for, but William Saffady in Records and Information Management 3rd edition states the following, "Protective measures are typically limited to security copies, sometimes described as backup copies, of vital records.”  Saffady is in essence saying that a backup is a copy and not the official record version.

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