[Info-vax] RMS internals?

[Howard S Shubs]

In article <_7idnTheDPJv7hzXnZ2dnUVZ_gGdnZ2d at giganews.com>,
 "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> wrote:

> We decided that anyone who hadn't bought anything for the last three 
> years was no longer a customer.  Pruning these inactive customers 
> reduced the database to a size we could move during a three day weekend.
> We kept an offline backup of the former customers that were pruned from 
> the live data base.  We kept those backup tapes for about three years 
> and nobody *ever* asked asked for any of that old data.

As usual, it's a situation dependent question.  Some apps are required 
to keep data for 7, 10, 25, 35, or 50 years, if not longer.  I've 
encountered one requiring 40 years of archiving, IIRC, at a nuclear 
power plant.

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