My understanding from Y2K reading is that historical data must remain in
its stored form, which is a major hassle. You get to keep all the old
backup software and hardware, and application software to read that data
as it was, for as long as you keep the data. I was at a site that had to
have a dead tape drive repaired at considerable cost due to this
requirement.

Perhaps you can contract with some service, similar to those that
promise hot sites after disasters, to keep everything you need, but I'm
guessing here.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Trudeau, James Lhrl [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Thursday, March 26, 1998 10:28 AM
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      [HP3000-L] TurboImage to Oracle (Another one bites the
> dust)
>
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> I keep having cows about what to do with the 9 years
> of offsite archive data we've got to deal with.  It's all on DDSII
> tapes in MPE STORE format.  It consists of TurboImage databases
> COBOL source code and executables.  Total of ummm 550-600GB.