Backup & Archiving Solutions

Backup versus Archiving

Understanding the difference between backup and archiving can be a bit confusing with some IT departments using insufficient backup solutions to suffice as digital archiving systems. This is one mistake that can put your organization at risk from both an operational and compliancy standpoint.

A backup and data protection program is built based on Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) and Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) to ensure there are no gaps in your records management history. The goal is to rely on backups to recover lost data to the most current point in time possible. It’s simply not acceptable in today’s business climate to incur large data loss. Therefore it’s wise for every organization to have a disaster recovery and business continuity plan that is documented and regularly tested. It is also good practice for electronic data to be backed up and protected off-line and off-site.

Archiving provides structure to unstructured data and lets you define data retention policies for various data and users. Such policies ensure the proper storage of data and allow deletion when no longer needed. Archiving enables users to perform advanced file searches. Additionally emails or instant messages can be searched and flagged for legal review during an e-discovery process, or prevented from being deleted or altered.

Let 3RP help you realize the following benefits of backup and archiving technologies:

• Automate storage and data life cycle
• Simplify backup and reduce recovery windows
• Reduce total cost of data storage
• Comply with data retention policies and regulations

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