I wish that this the issue but it is not. This is on the open systems side having to keep data forever at this time.
Thanks,
Ken Harper
PBM System Administrator II, Server Engineering
601-664-5474
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About your space issues...
I don't know if this applies to you but I have heard this on this list.
I hear too often about people keeping all tapes *PERM, and since it's on VTL now and you don't have to spend that chunk per cartridge it's even easier to fall into that trap.
Often it is blamed on the auditors. Auditors do not require you keep all your tapes for all eternity. What they will do is allow themselves to be used as a convenient excuse for you to do so as that policy at least meets or exceeds what they would normally recommend. At the same locations using that excuse do you keep all PC backups for all eternity? More than likely not. Same business, same industry so no real reason why the auditors standards would be different.
Maybe the people sharing the Data Domain got tired of that argument and that is why you are being kicked off?
We share our Data Domain with an IBM Spectrum Protect server running on Power AIX used to backup all of our PC's and related servers. Everyone is playing happily.
We are part of a public holding company and I personally have to go through all sorts of renewals on corporate forms, etc.
We have a total of 7 tapes that are *PERM. These are old libraries and a yearly save of a small subset of data.
Our quarterly full system saves are kept for 377 days.
And we're rather enamored with journal receivers so we keep a weekly save of just those for a year.
Monday saves are kept for 6 weeks.
Tuesday through Friday are only kept for 2 weeks.
Rob Berendt
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