Eric Bielefeld wrote:
One area that we had a lot of debate on at P&H Mining was how to access
tapes that were saved. They saved a lot of 3490 carts, but had no way of
reading them. They thought of buying a 3490 drive and software to convert
the data to ASCII, but as far as I know, they didn't buy anything. I think that
would have cost about $10K.
[...]
That's the issue I don't understand/accept. Someone should know *what
data* should be kept for what time and then ask what media the data
occupy. After that analysis, all needed, or "possibly needed" data can
be read to another media, like DVD, the rest can be safely erased or
destroyed with the media. Sometimes legal requirements makes the
migration too hard (i.e. custmer of a bank can request his account's
history), so it's easier to simply keep the old system just for
historical data retrieval until the period set by the law expires.
There are many other ways, but keeping tapes just to keep them doesn't
sound reasonable.
My $0.02
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