Backup Fails at Archive: Billion-Dollar eDiscovery Disasters

The Backup Wrap-Up

In this episode, Curtis and Prasanna do a deep dive on the differences between data backup and data archiving. They thoroughly explain that while backup focuses on restoring systems and files to a prior point in time, archiving is all about being able to search and retrieve specific information for legal or regulatory purposes.

Key reasons you'll want to tune in:

• Learn exactly why companies archive data and how regulatory compliance and legal eDiscovery requests require specialized archive capabilities.
• Understand the dangers of using your backup system as an archive for eDiscovery - lacking full search and exposing too much irrelevant data risks your legal case.
• Hear multiple real-world horror stories of companies failing legal cases due to lacking proper archives - to the tune of billions of dollars lost.
• Get clear examples of how continuous, comprehensive archiving captures all versions of files, emails, and data - including deleted and intermediate items.
• Get a life-line for those of you who are still using your backup system as an archive

If you need to implement archiving or fix broken archive approaches that risk legal noncompliance, this episode delivers an excellent primer on how archive differs from backup and what genuine archive systems can do.

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