Thanks. I would agree. In fact they used to keep their monthly tapes forever - the cost of tapes for a year is really not that expensive.


>In my opinion there should be a separate cycle that rotates one monthly backup over one year. This way you can go back to any month up to one year back. You need an additional 12 tapes which are taken at the end of each month and recycle the following year, so you just label them with the name of the month.
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>Besides that you can have a yearly backup that never rotates, so an additional 12 tapes for the last 12 years.
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