Re: Thoughts on Monthly Archives

2004-07-20 Thread Shannon Bach
D]> 07/19/2004 12:45 PM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager"                 To:        [EMAIL PROTECTED]         cc:                 Subject:        Re: Thoughts on Monthly Archives > For us, it is the beginning of the Sarbanes-Oxley overhaul.  I ask those same > questio

Re: Thoughts on Monthly Archives

2004-07-19 Thread Steve Harris
Thanks for your input Andy, yes these are all valid points. The requirement that we have is to be able to go back to the time of a decision and have available all pertinent information so that the same decision could be made again. I don't know who the optimist was who wrote the requirement, b

Re: Thoughts on Monthly Archives

2004-07-19 Thread Kauffman, Tom
nt for more disk space is one of the 'dumb idea' entries. Good Luck - Tom Kauffman NIBCO, Inc > -Original Message- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Andrew Raibeck > Sent: Monday, July 19, 2004 12:58 PM > To: [EMAIL PROT

Re: Thoughts on Monthly Archives

2004-07-19 Thread Mike Bantz
Raibeck Sent: Monday, July 19, 2004 11:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Thoughts on Monthly Archives > I haven't read the SBO requirements, but from our internal auditors, > it looks > like we need to have a good business > best efforts to keep readable for whatever retenti

Re: Thoughts on Monthly Archives

2004-07-19 Thread Andrew Raibeck
> I haven't read the SBO requirements, but from our internal auditors, it looks > like we need to have a good business > best efforts to keep readable for whatever retention period we publicize. > > In working with older tape technology in storing archive tapes, we found > that 20% of the tapes wer

Re: Thoughts on Monthly Archives

2004-07-19 Thread Andrew Raibeck
; > > Andrew Raibeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 07/19/2004 11:25 AM > Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" > > > To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > cc: > Subje

Re: Thoughts on Monthly Archives

2004-07-19 Thread Coats, Jack
that is what the federal regulators requried. -Original Message- From: Shannon Bach [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 19, 2004 12:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Thoughts on Monthly Archives For us, it is the beginning of the Sarbanes-Oxley overhaul. I ask those same ques

Re: Thoughts on Monthly Archives

2004-07-19 Thread Shannon Bach
004 11:25 AM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager"                 To:        [EMAIL PROTECTED]         cc:                 Subject:        Re: Thoughts on Monthly Archives Some considerations for long-term archive: - Much of today's data, as it is used from day to day, exis

Re: Thoughts on Monthly Archives

2004-07-19 Thread Andrew Raibeck
Some considerations for long-term archive: - Much of today's data, as it is used from day to day, exists in some product-specific format. If you were to retrieve that data, say, 10 years from now, would you have software capable of reading that data? - Even if you archive the software, will opera

Re: Thoughts on Monthly Archives

2004-07-19 Thread asr
==> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steve Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There was another management requirement that all production servers be > backed up in full once per year and that snapshot be kept "forever" - there > is no reasoning with this, its one of those stupid mandates that ap

Re: Thoughts on Monthly Archives

2004-07-18 Thread Gordon Woodward
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Re: Thoughts on Monthly Archives

2004-07-18 Thread Steve Harris
Allen, Your post got me thinking as to just why I decided what I did ― and now I remember :) There was another management requirement that all production servers be backed up in full once per year and that snapshot be kept "forever" - there is no reasoning with this, its one of those stupid

Re: Thoughts on Monthly Archives

2004-07-16 Thread Mike Bantz
ECTED] Subject: Re: Thoughts on Monthly Archives If you keep the tapes "outside the system", what do you do when there is an opportunity to change tape technology in 5 years? How do you migrate that data to new tapes? [RC] "Dwight Cook"

Re: Thoughts on Monthly Archives

2004-07-16 Thread Robert Clark
To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: "ADSM: Dist cc: Stor Manager" Subject: Re: Thoughts on Monthly Archives <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > 07/15/2004 05:22

Re: Thoughts on Monthly Archives

2004-07-16 Thread Stapleton, Mark
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Bantz >I *love* that TSM is so flexible and I hate that I get to >agonize and debate >any changes to it for that very reason. We've been bitten >really hard in the >past due to poor planning, so I'm trying to plan for my n

Re: Thoughts on Monthly Archives

2004-07-16 Thread Mike Bantz
g, so I'm trying to plan for my next 4-7 years now. :-) -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 10:08 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Thoughts on Monthly Archives ==> In article <

Re: Thoughts on Monthly Archives

2004-07-16 Thread asr
==> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mike Bantz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How would I find that out? We're not even doing monthly backups yet - just > trying to see the impending impact. Count your incremental size over a series of days, and you'll have a measure of the instantaneous change r

Re: Thoughts on Monthly Archives

2004-07-16 Thread asr
==> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steve Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > at 1% , 1-(0.99**30), or about .25 > at 2%, 1-(0.98**30) , or about .45 > at 3%, 1-(0.97**30), or about .60 (Please feel free to correct my maths if I'm > wrong - probability was never my strong point) I think yo

Re: Thoughts on Monthly Archives

2004-07-16 Thread Tammy Schellenberg
--Original Message- From: Mike Bantz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 7:40 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Thoughts on Monthly Archives How would I find that out? We're not even doing monthly backups yet - just trying to see the impending impact. >From what I&#

Re: Thoughts on Monthly Archives

2004-07-16 Thread Mike Bantz
M: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Harris Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2004 7:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Thoughts on Monthly Archives Gordon, I've though of doing this in the past, but, if we postulate a random daily change rate, then the chances of a par

Re: Thoughts on Monthly Archives

2004-07-15 Thread Steve Harris
Gordon, I've though of doing this in the past, but, if we postulate a random daily change rate, then the chances of a particular file being changed in any one month are at 1% , 1-(0.99**30), or about .25 at 2%, 1-(0.98**30) , or about .45 at 3%, 1-(0.97**30), or about .60 (Please feel free t

Re: Thoughts on Monthly Archives

2004-07-15 Thread Gordon Woodward
We use to do full Monthly archives of all our important data on our servers but our TSM database was growing too rapidly, especially when we have to retain our backups for 7 years. What we ended up doing is registering a whole new alternate set of nodes specifically for Monthly backups and now j

Re: Thoughts on Monthly Archives

2004-07-15 Thread Dwight Cook
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Re: Thoughts on Monthly Archives

2004-07-15 Thread Mike Bantz
>>personally I don't like to keep any archived data in an active TSM server environment that has a retention value of more than 370 days Can I ask why? This seems like an **awfully** short time... - mike

Re: Thoughts on Monthly Archives

2004-07-15 Thread Dwight Cook
one thought... for clients that require the monthly 4 year archives... register alternate nodes by the name of _exp push any data required for long term retention (in the form of either backups or archives or both) using the client _exp export that node remove from environment... doesn't tak