Paul, As mentioned, I only inherited the environment :-) I was told that the reason this was being done was they wanted to have the tapes and sessions protected until they decided to explicitly unprotect them. I think it stemmed more from paranoia and lack of understanding from the business. It is a bit of a make work thing.
Jeff Paul Keating wrote: > Why would you not set your retentions correctly (ie, set to expire when > you want them to) then have Iron Mountain automatically return the tapes > when the expiration date rolls 'round? > > That way your tapes come back to you as Scratch, with no clean up work > to do afterward. > > Sounds like a make work project. > > Paul > > -- Jeff Cleverley Unix Systems Administrator Avago Technologies 4380 Ziegler Road Fort Collins, Colorado 80525 970-288-4611 [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu