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	Podcast:		voiceofthedba's podcast
	Episode:		How Far Back?
	Category:		Technology
	Duration:		00:03:43
	Publish Date:		2018-05-29 20:00:00
	Description:		At the Redgate SQL Privacy Summit recently, there was panel I hosted that I thought was really interesting. At one point someone asked a question and there was a bit of a discussion about the right to forget in the EU. One of the fascinating things wasn't about the rights, but about backups. One of our panelists noted that we often keep too many backups, most of which are really useless. This portion of the discussion started by asking how many backups people keep. Many of those in the audience kept many backups, sometimes dozens. Many of them had some rotation scheme that determined how many files were kept over time. I know I've worked in places where we kept over a week or two worth of backup files, often along with a monthly or quarterly backup for a year and then multiple year end backups in perpetuity. I guess since we didn't really know how long those backups were valid as we just marked some tape as the end-of-year one and left it in a vault somewhere. Read the rest of How Far Back?
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