Thanks, This is a great article. I have been going round and round
with my NT group here. They keep insisting that they need to run weekly
archives of 40 - 80GB systems every week over a 100mb ethernet network. I
am almost at point where I will have to split the server our current data
base size is about 90GB running on a OS/390 platform.
John R. O'Connell
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From: Kelly J. Lipp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 1:28 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: long-term archive and retrieve
The most important issue to my way of thinking is the format with which you
archive. I believe that it makes no sense to archive data in its native
format. For instance, in the case of a database, archiving the database
itself, that is the binary images, makes no sense. How will you read that
data 2, 5, 7, 10 years from now? You won't that's how. I advocate
exporting the data to some textual format, perhaps CSV so the data can be
easily imported into some application and massaged.
Second issue is to only archive that which you are required to archive.
Most folks simply archive everything hoping that will ensure they have
something. Unfortunately when that is done it is likely you will have
archived something you distinctly did not want to have lying around.
There is a white paper I wrote a number of years ago that appears to be
relevant again:
http://www.storsol.com/cfusion/template.cfm?page1=wp_whyaisa&page2=blank_men
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A number of other papers are at:
http://www.storsol.com/cfusion/template.cfm?page1=whitepapers&page2=blank_me
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Kelly J. Lipp
Storage Solutions Specialists, Inc.
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Colorado Springs CO 80949-1313
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
Dmochowski, Ray
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 10:18 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: long-term archive and retrieve
Hi, *SMers
Does anyone have any experiences, best practices, etc.
they'd like to share about long-term retention (archiving) of
vital records. What to do to support expeditious retrieve?
If you can point me to any references or URLs that would
also be greatly appreciated.
Ray Dmochowski
Schering-Plough Research Institute
Kenilworth, NJ 07033, U.S.A.
(908) 740-3261
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