Jim, we have this discussion nearly every year. We all know that we need not only the backup of the database, but also the appropriate DBM version plus Operating system, hardware and application software. We have to keep our inventory data for 15 years! I have more than 10 years old half inch tape reels from our mainframe time. Today i don't have any mainframe, not any version of the operating system or application software and i dont't know anybody who would be able to read a 1/2 inch tape reel! And - more important - there is nobody in our company who knows the data and would be able to work with them! Our solution is to migrate the data to an optical archive. So the supplier of the archive is responsible that the data can be read and interpreted for such a long time. Despite that we are forced to keep 1 backup of our SAP database per year. Nonsense. But we do it and hope that noone would ever need it! regards Reinhold Jim Taylor schrieb: > I keep getting this pressure from clients to keep copies of their 500GB > oracle database for 7 years. They don't seem to know why they want it kept > for seven years. Like most others they don't think of what their restore > requirements are. > > Has anyone had to restore/retrieve a large database that was, say more than > 2 years old. If so was it successful and was it as simple as restoring just > the DB. > > ThanX > > > Jim Taylor > > Senior Associate, Technical Services > > Enlogix > > * E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > * Office: (416) 496-5264 ext. 286 > > * Cell: (416)458-6802 > > * Fax: (416) 496-5245 > > > >
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