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Deleting jobs and policies in Backup Exec

I have the need to reconfigure my backup policies and jobs.  I wanted to clean up the current policies and jobs in Backup Exec 12.  I've been using these same policies and jobs for 2 years.  If I am to delete them, will I still be able to restore data that used these jobs?
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Confirming what rbarnhardt says.

Think about it -- if the job still needed to exist to perform a restore, , you'd be in a heap of trouble if you ever had to do a bare metal restore, or restore data from a tape from a failed server in data center A, to a new server in data center B (in these cases, you do need to catalog or import the tape... but the data is still there and usable).
as an added measure, document your current backup jobs and polices and then you can delete you rbackup jobs and policies. note you';ll still have to perform tape catlogs, and can even restore to different new servers as long as your tapes are not faulty and can be catlogged, and restoreable!
Well, if the catalog folder is copied, that information will move the the new server. There is no need to catalog before a restore.