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>What I want to do is to take an snapshot of our TSM data as it was at end
>of year 1/1/04 and archive it away for 10 years. ...
This kind of requirement begs a lot of questions, as it tends to be one of those
very vague management ideas which receives too little thought from the decision
makers.
- With organizations typically having terabytes of data in storage, does mgmt
really expect to "snapshot" it in less than a day?
- Are they imposing this requirement on a backup-restore system which has not been
configured technologically to accommodate this huge incongruity in operation?
- Do they have a clear idea of what they would later do with such snapshotted
data (which drives a requirement for reintroduction of the data), or is this
just a "warm feeling" exercise?
- Do they realize that the hardware and software technology which produces such
a snapshot today may no longer exist 10 years hence?
There are a lot of implications to approaching an initiative like this. A Dilbert
boss spur of the moment (i.e., after the first of the year has passed) assigned
task of somehow making a snapshot of everything just doesn't cut it.
Just commiserating amongst us technicians, Richard Sims BU
