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Just for you I'll try to keep a separate email for each tangent.
Why keep the old tapes?
We've discovered that the longer you keep old tapes the MORE liable you are for stuff. We do not keep "old stuff" with few exceptions. For example, last save after we migrated from version x to version y. We only have 7 permanent tapes. These are the only tapes which appear with: WRKMEDBRM TYPE(*ACT) SLTEXPDATE(090122)
Our quarterly full system saves are only kept for just over a year. No *PERM on these. I think it's 377 days until they expire.
We keep one year end save of just a few things as *PERM.
If we had a tape from 2005 we would have to be able to restore it. So, each time we migrate media libraries we would migrate that tape to a format we could currently restore from. Now that we use a virtual tape library it's not no big a concern. But it REALLY used to be.
Rob Berendt
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