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It is critical that organizations have effective backup strategies
and hardware in place so that 1) data is backed up at all, 2) data
is backed up often enough based on the needs of the business (tolerance
to data loss), 3) the backup can occur within a given window of
operation, 4) data restores can occur in the time frame required by your business
continuity plan, and 5) the backup occurs with a minimum of manual tape swaps, which are
the bane of automated, effective, timely, reliable backups. If you're a publicly
traded company or deal with personal medical data, then there are Sarbanes-Oxley or HIPAA compliance concerns, too.
We also address
the issue of catalog index file redundancy, which we have never
seen any other service provider bother with -- kind of sad, really.
Escape works
with clients to determine storage needs and backup schedules for
both live jobs and long-term archive. With the plummeting costs
of hard drive storage, it is usually cheaper to keep files around
indefinitely than to burn them to CD or other media, but Escape
will consult with you to establish the exact needs of your organization.
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