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Tips for Data Retention and Cloud Backup

One topic that never seems to get enough attention from businesses when talking about their data protection strategy is their data retention policies. Some of these are impacted by the way a company backs up its data and if it has regulatory compliance issues. For example, many companies that backup their data to tapes tend to throw everything on them with no rhyme or reason. This causes a lot of data to be backed up that isn't necessary and could even be cause for increased liability. It also impacts your backup window by backing up more unnecessary files daily. Cloud Backup has a great filtering option allowing you to designate files or types of files you do not want backed up off-site.

Another important element to this topic is the deletion of data. There can be scenarios where you want to delete data from your network, but always keep a backup copy for legal or compliance reasons. There are also situations where you want to both delete it from your network and your backup copies. The key is to automate and review those policies for your business on an ongoing basis.

Whenever using Cloud Backup to protect your data, it is easy to set up the retention policies for your data on the front end and make changes along the way in a matter of minutes. Like anything else in life, if you make sure to do things right on the front end, it makes everything easier on the back end. Watch the following brief video from Jeff Cato, V.P. of Marketing, and Edward Wallace, Sales Engineer, as they discuss some best practices for setting up your retention policies.

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