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I'm one of the IT guys in your midst. I'm wondering what the industry answer is for retaining key data and not having to backup 5 years of operations data.

I have worked in places where the respirators come back to the lab at the end of the day and they report on what was captured in the filters. In that case they put the particles in the crucible and do labcoat things to it and enter that data into a system.

In a more automated process, we have baghouses that will trigger an alarm for the hopper to be cleaned out. I figure those same devices are cleaning off the filters or alarming for a manual cleaning at some rate as well. I don't know if they ever capture a cross-section of what's being captured. I'm not a process engineer.

So, if I could get the guys on the plant floor to tell me exactly what data needs to be retained I can offer a lot of options on the VM and SQL side.

Do you have a good way of doing it?