I think Paul's summary is right on the money. I also am not a lawyer and never went to law school, but I read the modified rules at http://www.uscourts.gov/rules/archive.htm.
Civil Rule 16 Civil Rule 26 Civil Rule 33 Civil Rule 34 Civil Rule 37 Civil Rule 45 There's actually a safe harbor statement that says that if you have a policy of deleting data at a certain period of time, and you can't provide it to a court/plaintiff because of that policy, then they cannot assign any punitive charges for that. HOWEVER, once sued, all expiration stops. If you get an e-discovery request, and it's asking for tapes from a certain period, you'd better immediately set them to never expire and write protect (or at least segregate) those suckers. This is really just a clarification of what's been going on in civil cases for years. It doesn't change what anybody has to keep for how long, or anything like that. All it does is tell you what to do when sued, and says that it's OK if you delete stuff BEFORE being sued. --- W. Curtis Preston, Author of Backup & Recovery and Using SANs and NAS VP Data Protection GlassHouse Technologies -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Keating Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 9:06 AM To: Bobby Williams; WEAVER, Simon; Bob Stump; Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Infinity backup and level of infinity The issue is not "arbitrary". For instance.....if you have a policy that all "category X" data isdestroyed after 6 months, and you get sued and have to provide all dataof category X for the past year....you cannot say "Oh crap, I've got allthis data of category X that's older than 6 months, I'd better destroyit." If you have it, you cannot destroy it, when you get sued.....you'dbetter be destroying it, as a matter of practice, as soon as the policystates it can be destroyed. If you haven't got documented precidence of strictly adhering to yourpublished policy, then you can't use the policy as justification for thedata you just destroyed. Paul -- > -----Original Message-----> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL > PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Bobby Williams> Sent: December 6, 2006 10:09 AM> > To: Paul Keating; WEAVER, Simon; Bob Stump; > > Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Infinity backup > and level of infinity> > > the rule that became law on 12/1/06 seems to make > it a crime > to arbitrarily start erasing tapes.> > Does anyone have a link > to the law that is causing all of the > "E-discovery" discussions?> > > Bobby==================================================================================== La version française suit le texte anglais. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This email may contain privileged and/or confidential information, and the Bank ofCanada does not waive any related rights. Any distribution, use, or copying of thisemail or the information it contains by other than the intended recipient isunauthorized. If you received this email in error please delete it immediately fromyour system and notify the sender promptly by email that you have done so. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Le présent courriel peut contenir de l'information privilégiée ou confidentielle.La Banque du Canada ne renonce pas aux droits qui s'y rapportent. Toute diffusion,utilisation ou copie de ce courriel ou des renseignements qu'il contient par unepersonne autre que le ou les destinataires désignés est interdite. Si vous recevezce courriel par erreur, veuillez le supprimer immédiatement et envoyer sans délai àl'expéditeur un message électronique pour l'aviser que vous avez éliminé de votreordinateur toute copie du courriel reçu. _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
