(31 May 2015, 5:12 pm)Andreos1 wrote Most paper records are archived after a period and then destroyed. So to keep an electronic version, on a system that will more than likely being replaced anyway...
It shouldn't be on the wit of beast to somehow translate the old data onto another format (keeping the relevant info) then delete it from the original system.
You'd be surprised mate. Funnily enough, most systems aren't designed to be ported across to a competitor. Even something that runs opensource, e.g. this forum software (MyBB) and the database engine (MySQL), requires quite a bit of work to convert.