[Gllug] backup solution

[Bernard Peek]

In message <m3wueru7zz.fsf at thoth.shadow.local>, Rich Walker 
<rw at shadow.org.uk> writes


>I know that the outfit my dad used to work for discovered that sunlight
>was eating their CD-R's, and so issues  one of those wonderful
>company-wide memos...
>
>But for *english* *legal* reasons, you only *need* to keep 7 years of
>data accessible. And anyway, given increase in storage size, in 10 years
>you'll burn all your old CDR's onto a corner of your holographic
>crystal, and bury a spare in the garden...

Probably. But just a small correction, there are some types of financial 
data that has to be kept indefinitely. I believe that it includes 
directors' expense payments. I could be wrong on that, but I was told 
that by a company secretary..



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