You might want to talk to your university archivist (if you have one) and/or someone in the library (which is sometimes where the archivist is but not always). I know we've got active efforts to figure out repositories for research data and other work, and if your library (or whoever is responsible for institutional data) isn't thinking about this sort of thing, they should be.
They might even be able to help. :-) -- Christopher Manly Coordinator, Library Systems Cornell University Library Information Technologies [email protected] 607-255-3344 On 9/6/12 12:20 PM, "David Parter" <[email protected]> wrote: > >As many of us know, backups are not archives. Backups are for disaster >recovery, archives are to preserve specific data for a specific period >of time (perhaps "forever"). > >In reviewing (and revising to be significanly shorter) our backup >retention policy, I became aware that our users have (at least in their >mind) been relying on our backups to serve as archives (long term >storage). > >Before I present the new backup retention policy, I would like to know >about options for data archiving. I am not even sure how to describe the >service, so google searches are not very helpful yet (mostly I found >tools for digitial archives of records that are not originally digital). > >I asked others on campus, and no one seems to have an answer -- but they >all agreed it is something we need. > >Do any of you have or know of any systems for data archiving? > >From a user point of view, they would specify a collection of >files/directories (most likely an entire project area in the file >sytems) and ask that it be archived under some naming scheme, for a >specific period of time (at which point notification is sent to do >something -- extend the archive expiration date or delete the archive, I >don't know). > >From a technical point of view... I don't know what the requirements >are. Obviously, we want to preserve the data. I am sure others have >already come up with requirements and solutions to avoid, detect and >hopefully correct bit rot... > >So.. what is out there, what is the conventional name for such a service >or product, is anyone using it? > >thanks, > > --david > >David Parter >Director of Academic Computing Facilities >University of Wisconsin Computer Sciences Department >[email protected] >608-262-0608 >_______________________________________________ >Discuss mailing list >[email protected] >https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss >This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
