Archiving, Backup: What’s the Best Data Solution for an SMB?

Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: CJ Arlotta.

Many small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) may not understand the differences between a backup and archive tool — so how should you explain it to them? Backup and recovery software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications solutions provider Backupify covered this discussion in a blog post, explaining why an SMB would need a backup solution, an archive solution, or both.

Backupify’s Sheila Lahar summed up the differences in a simple sentence: "Archiving is for discovery while backups are for recovery." Since Lahar’s memory trick may need a little more explaining, so she divided the article up into two sections: when to use an archiving tool and when to use an backup tool…

When to use a archiving tool

The differences between the two solutions has to do with why the SMBs needs the copied data. SMBs looking to copy data for both auditing and compliance tasks should leverage an archiving tool…

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