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In a traditional, tape backup environment, best practice
tells us to have copies of our data, on tape, offsite. This
is so we have a copy of our mission critical data that's not
onsite, so we don't lose our original data and all our
copies in the event of a site wide disaster. Unfortunately,
many companies only go through the motions of having an
offsite copy – the offsite tape is in an employee's purse,
or in their car, or somewhere at their house, and there's
little thought to the age of that data. Even companies that
fully embrace the offsite copy concept must deal with the
fact that they may need to wait for a tape to come back from
their offsite data store (Iron Mountain or the like) before
they can restore a missing file. Vaulting, on the other
hand, maintains a system image over the Internet (or over a
WAN connection to another office of your company). This
image is maintained automatically by your backup solution.
In the event of a site disaster, there's a current copy of
your key systems offsite that you can get to over the
Internet and that you can count on.
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