Why Backups alone are not enough
June 3, 2010Poor policy management
No Standards or procedures
No indexing or search capabilities
Poor segmentation
Data is “consolidated” on media haphazardly according to source time and place rather than according to policy
Data sharing the same media cannot be truly expired
Retrieval requests will bring back unrelated data
Unworkable as everything we need archives for…
Legal discovery process
Long-term retention
Distant-future recoverability
Consistency of data