Re: Thoughts on Monthly Archives

2004-07-20 Thread Shannon Bach
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 questions to people all over my company and their response? Well you (me) had better make

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 applies to

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

Re: Thoughts on Monthly Archives

2004-07-19 Thread Shannon Bach
: 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, exists in some product-specific format. If you were to retrieve that data, say, 10

Re: Thoughts on Monthly Archives

2004-07-19 Thread Coats, Jack
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 questions to people all over my company

Re: Thoughts on Monthly Archives

2004-07-19 Thread Andrew Raibeck
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, exists in some product-specific format. If you were

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 were not

Re: Thoughts on Monthly Archives

2004-07-19 Thread Mike Bantz
, 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 retention period we publicize. In working with older

Re: Thoughts on Monthly Archives

2004-07-19 Thread Kauffman, Tom
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 PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Thoughts on Monthly Archives I

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,

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 didand 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

2004-07-18 Thread Gordon Woodward
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: Thoughts on Monthly Archives U 16/07/2004 11:53 AM Please respond

Re: Thoughts on Monthly Archives

2004-07-16 Thread Mike Bantz
:[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 particular file being changed in any

Re: Thoughts on Monthly Archives

2004-07-16 Thread Tammy Schellenberg
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've read here so far

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 your math

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 rate.

Re: Thoughts on Monthly Archives

2004-07-16 Thread Mike Bantz
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 [EMAIL PROTECTED], Steve Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes

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 next

Re: Thoughts on Monthly Archives

2004-07-16 Thread Robert Clark
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Re: Thoughts on Monthly Archives

2004-07-16 Thread Mike Bantz
] 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED

Thoughts on Monthly Archives

2004-07-15 Thread Mike Bantz
We are implementing the following: Monthly FULL backups, saved for 4 years for document retention purposes. Backupsets are not viable, as a restore would be a pain. So it looks like we're going to do this with archives. My idea is to create another storage pool with it's own media, another

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
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Re: Thoughts on Monthly Archives

2004-07-15 Thread Gordon Woodward
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Re: Thoughts on Monthly Archives

2004-07-15 Thread Steve Harris
] Sent by: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]cc: EDU Subject: Thoughts on Monthly Archives 16/07/2004 07:00 AM Please