Re: [COLD was Media Worry ]

[Frank Kolmann <FKolmann@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

MacWheel99@aol.com wrote:
> From Al Macintyre
> My point is that as archives develop on a particular media,
> and conversion policies generally focus on the here & now 
> reality on-line, there is growing historical media that 
> will not load directly to current box & will it be clearly
> understood by next MIS staff that the data has value & there
> are choices for getting at it if we really need it & 
> understand the software issues since some of it is for 
> packages whose licenses we have let expire.
> 
> > the GL folks would run trials for all of these companies
> >that generated THOUSANDS of spool files that were THOUSANDS
> >of pages long. 

Is not the standard solution to saving reports COLD.
We use LaserVault. It has some limitations.
However we can store every report on CD forever (what
is the life of a CD?) and on a CD Jukebox server have
on-line access to many years of reports.
I am curious as to what others use and how effective COLD is.

Frank Kolmann


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