[3004] in Release_Engineering
Re: Old tapes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (epeisach@Athena.MIT.EDU)
Sun Apr 11 18:49:25 1993
From: epeisach@Athena.MIT.EDU
To: "Richard Basch" <basch@MIT.EDU>
Cc: epeisach@MIT.EDU, builder@MIT.EDU, rel-eng@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of Sun, 11 Apr 93 18:33:25 -0400.
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 93 18:49:18 EDT
Ok - how about this:
If it is maintained by ACS - give them the tapes.
This includes:
franz lisp, prolog, blox, scribe, 2020 and the like.
If they want to get a tape rack and manage it - let them.
Things to keep: Anything that goes into a release including:
transcript and various other source tapes.
The Tk50 pile you mention - give all old versions of saber back to
software acquisition (or f_l) since they manage saber in the saber locker
etc. That should be worth a dozen or so.
AIX 1.2 disks - S/W acquisition
You may want to consult S/W acquisition if you find that we no longer have
a license for something - how to dispose of the tape. (NAG for instance?)
There may be a need for a long term archive cabinet for the aref volumes...
(or better still, replace everything that we have online w/ aref.*
with 2 backups in tar format, one in AFS backup in the cabinet and get rid
of the 9 track)
For laughs - ask for the inventory list which someone spent several weeks
putting together which we essentially destroyed because we never could get
access to it or have a way of updating it as tapes were removed/reused...
(I would have been happy to update the list if it was available).
