Disaster Prevention
It is all well and good to choose the best archiving technology that most securely stores data, but if that store is destroyed because of fire, flood or other catastrophe, a remotely stored copy is a godsend. The use of removable media has always been seen as the lowest cost option in creating a disaster recovery copy. Media is physically transported to a separate offsite store or fire safe.
With the increase in speed and decrease in cost of external network links, replication of archived data to a remote site has become more popular. It does mean purchasing double the storage capacity, one for the local copy and one for the remote copy, but the benefit is faster recovery from the loss of the primary copy, store or site.
QStar HSM Archive management software offers both synchronous and asynchronous replication solutions, allowing the creation of Disaster Recovery (DR) copies at a remote site, on the same or different type of technologies. Potentially a fast archive can be maintained at the primary site but a slower / less expensive technology can be used for the DR copy.
* Source:Axa 2007 report
