Re: What the . . . ? Impossible?
Those of a certain venerable age and given to grey beards and open toed sandals may well still remember George 3 and Tape To Tape Processing.
This kept your tape backups regularly copied {and so, fresh) and also ditched old data such as files modified or deleted to keep the tape library to a manageable size.
Perhaps modern backup strategies just leave an ever growing pile of ageing media in a vault somewhere?
Retention of corporate data for regulatory purposes has special rules, but I hope these archives are read and copied every now and then onto new media.
In which case old data no longer requied can be discarded.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
