On 21 Nov 2006 13:30:37 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >Point out that the media is non-removable, to big to pick up, and resides in >a physically secure location (hopefully!) & promise to overwrite it when it >gets de-installed....used to work for me... > Probably not true anymore with the raid disks on x gigabyte small disk drives. The physical drive may still be in a relatively secure physical location but the actual physical drive with the spinning platters might even fit in your pocket. Just to complicate things, if I understand the new technology at all (for some large value of IF), the data may be semi-randomly splashed over several drives and very hard to decipher without the file description information. Information stored in a database might be even more scrambled.
The structured nature of mainframe data makes many of the tapes, especially backup tapes less than easily useful without a lot of work. > > >-----Original Message----- >From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Behalf Of Ted MacNEIL >Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2006 4:01 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: Data Retention Question > > >>Would that be enough to keep them happy? > >Who knows with lawyers? > >But, I really don't want to take the performance hit of 'erase on scratch'! > >I would prefer to point out that we have to perform a lot of unnatural acts >to recover the data on our favourite platform. > >When in doubt. >PANIC!! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
