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Digital Archives

Digital archives are repositories for business records that are no longer in use but that may need to be accessed in the future. These are fixed content files that have become records that should not be modified. The primary goal of a digital archive is to preserve these records from change while providing the necessary means to find and retrieve them.

Archiving vs. Backup

Backups are copies of active production data used when a problem arises within a production environment, and a recovery copy is needed to get the business up and running again. Since backups are focused on constantly changing business information, a newer and known good copy is always preferred over an older copy - backups are generally short-term and often overwritten.

Archiving Definitions

In contrast archives do not focus on “recovering” an application or business data, but allow for information retrieval at the level of a file, email, document or other individual piece of content. Archives are not copies of production information, but rather the primary version of a piece of often inactive or non-changing data. In fact, when data stops changing or is no longer frequently used, it is often best to move it to an archive, where it lives outside the backup window yet can still be accessed.

Definition: Backup is short-term and archive is long-term.

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Archiving Definitions Why Archive? Archiving Best Practice Product Information White Paper Learn more about Swiss archiving laws and regulations Click here to download white paper		Digital Archives Digital archives are repositories for business records that are no longer in use but that may need to be accessed in the future. These are fixed content files that have become records that should not be modified. The primary goal of a digital archive is to preserve these records from change while providing the necessary means to find and retrieve them. Archiving vs. Backup Backups are copies of active production data used when a problem arises within a production environment, and a recovery copy is needed to get the business up and running again. Since backups are focused on constantly changing business information, a newer and known good copy is always preferred over an older copy - backups are generally short-term and often overwritten. In contrast archives do not focus on “recovering” an application or business data, but allow for information retrieval at the level of a file, email, document or other individual piece of content. Archives are not copies of production information, but rather the primary version of a piece of often inactive or non-changing data. In fact, when data stops changing or is no longer frequently used, it is often best to move it to an archive, where it lives outside the backup window yet can still be accessed. Definition: Backup is short-term and archive is long-term.