Storage Tiering Service · View 05 of 31 · 2 · People and journeys
The worst moments
- Authorise. A tenant retrieval ceiling that exists to stop a runaway export would, applied blindly, stop a court-ordered production. The platform must not choose between a budget and a legal obligation by accident.
- Wait. 2,300 packs on 31 cartridges with six drives available. The estimate slips by five hours when an interactive recall takes a drive. What hurts is not the delay but finding out late.
What the architecture owes this journey
- A legal authority separate from tenant budgets: never refused, always attributed, approved by a named person (ADR-27).
- Planning by pack and by cartridge, with CTA ordering retrievals by tape position, so 0.7 million objects cost 2,300 stages rather than 0.7 million (ADR-26).
- A published estimate that is revised when it changes, and a report of every staged byte nobody read.
Assumption
- Legal holds already cover this custodian, so none of the archived objects can have moved during the proceedings. The recall only reads.
