That's why I advise people to use bplabel to relabel every tape in the scratch pool as soon as it gets there. Nobody that I know (and I know some pretty sharp people) knows how to get past the "last file on tape" marker that gets put at the end of that label. (Every time you write or append to a tape, the last file on the tape has a special file mark at the end of it saying it's the last file on tape. Every device driver in the world will stop there and not go farther when reading the tape. When writing to the tape, of course, it will overwrite that marker and then write another one at the end of what you append to the tape.) --- W. Curtis Preston, Author of Backup & Recovery and Using SANs and NAS VP Data Protection GlassHouse Technologies
________________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of WEAVER, Simon Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 6:34 AM To: 'Bob Stump'; 'Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu' Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Infinity backup and level of infinity Bob As long as you have the Media on tape, even if it the media has expired from the Catalog itself, the tapes can be imported? That counts as being able to retain the Data and restore it (although just not as quick!) Regards Simon Weaver 3rd Line Technical Support Windows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium Limited, B23AA IM (DCS) Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Bob Stump [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 06 December 2006 14:31 To: WEAVER, Simon; 'Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu' Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Infinity backup and level of infinity BEWARE that many times you are legally obligated to maintain 7 years of data. Unfortunately, you may be required to ALSO provide data past the 7 year legal requirement IF you have it and IF you can restore it. One company I was at, determined that infinity should only be 7 years in order to avoid a court order to provide the older data. They not only had me change the current policies to use a 7 year retention, they also had me recalculate the expiration dates on existing images that were set to infinite (2038) retention. That edict came from their legal department. DISCLAIMER: I am not a lawyer and I've never played one on the tele. >>> "WEAVER, Simon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 12/6/2006 1:59 AM >>> Guys Regarding the "retension" setting under any schedule. After 1 year, it moves from Infinity Level 9 to Level 24. Just what level should be used it you want to retain something for say 10 years. Thanks Regards Simon Weaver 3rd Line Technical Support Windows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium Limited, B23AA IM (DCS) Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email (including any attachments) may contain confidential and/or privileged information or information otherwise protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately, do not copy this message or any attachments and do not use it for any purpose or disclose its content to any person, but delete this message and any attachments from your system. Astrium disclaims any and all liability if this email transmission was virus corrupted, altered or falsified. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Astrium Limited, Registered in England and Wales No. 2449259 Registered Office: Gunnels Wood Road, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1 2AS, England _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu