Not sure for how long your regulatory rules state that you need to keep the
archived data on your 3592 cartridges but:
a) The lifetime of a cartridge(or, the data stored on it) can be counted from
the first use, not the production date. The physical cartridge itself wont
break down into dust,
Thanks Daniel,
The longest period in regulatory rules is 10-years. I thought if you don't
use a cartridge for a long time (say 10 years) before storing data on it,
the tape loses its physical characteristics little by little.
On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Daniel Sparrman
The commercial data tape industry cites 30 years as the nominal lifetime of
data on magnetic tape. That's way longer than the viable life of a tape
technology, which means how often we transition to new drive types. In any
case, it's healthy and recommended practice to move data across tapes
Thanks Richard,
and is there any way to determine the manufacturing date of a cartridge from
its serial number or something like that?
On Oct 1, 2011, at 10:13 AM, Mehdi Salehi wrote:
Thanks Richard,
and is there any way to determine the manufacturing date of a cartridge from
its serial number or something like that?
The best reference for your site is the invoice for when the tapes were
purchased, as connected with the
I wouldn't be so sure that 10 years is all you will need Mehdi
A few years back I attempted to unravel the retention rules for an
Australian State Government department for which I was working at the
time.
There were layers on layers of rules to work through and I never did get
to the
