[OpenAFS] Commercial AFS backups
Derrick J Brashear
shadow@dementia.org
Tue, 10 Oct 2006 16:08:37 -0400 (EDT)
On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, ted creedon wrote:
> 3. Copying random access media to sequential access media interferes with
> scheduled deletions. The legal department despises archived correspondence.
> For instance, not throwing away 50 year old PAPER correspondence cost Johns
> Manville, Eagle Pitcher Industries and Raybestos tens of billions of dollars
> in asbestos claims.
Cynically, one might claim if they did it, it didn't cost them the money,
it simply meant they couldn't weasel out of it.
But that's politics, not filesystems.