RE: Long Term Backups and Retrieval strategies

Hi Hemman

>With different legislative and customer requirements, we are troubled by the
>fact that we may have to make data backups available for 7 to 15 years {some
>requirements are as long as 15 years}.
>The usual restrictions about the same hardware and operating systems not being
>available 10 years later come to mind first.
>
>How have other organisations devised backup strategies for such requirements ?

A couple of years ago we had to solve the same problem for the Swiss Federal Archive. I suggest you to go to http://www.trivadis.com/e/company/customers/casestudies/ and read the case study (search for "Swiss Federal Archive") about our solution. Note that one of the requirements was to be database independent as well.

HTH
Chris

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