Why does One need Back-up vs Archive
Submitted by Dana Johnson on April 10, 2006 - 5:12pm.
I have a customer inquiring about why they need a Back-up solution(such as RELOAD) and not just use their Archive solution. They feel the Archive is sufficient. What can I tell them? Do you have any documentation about this? The customer is the CIO for a Large School District. The GW Admin are sold, but the CIO wants an explination of why?
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Tay Kratzer answered this for you
Check out this article that Tay wrote in response to your post. The bottom line is: Reload is not an archive solution. Reload is a Backup, Quick Restore and Quick Disaster Recovery solution. Tay provides tons of great selling points that can help your customers understand why they need both things.
Agree with Tay...however
Besides being a backup, quick restore disaster recovery solution, it also can be used for archiving email offline..for those times when you have to go back further than your online backup. It allos for moving previous reload backups to offline storage like cd or dvd. I use this point when selling reload to my groupwise customers. I am also working on a SLA with customers to use reload at my site to backup customers systems for them via the internet. Still testing the idea, but it is looking good.
Defining Archiving
You are correct in your observation about moving reload backups to offline storage, but I wouldn't consider that Archiving. The definition of Archiving is shifting away from the storage term. I believe you are describing an extended form of backup and storage, while Archiving should be looked at as a means of increasing access and search of the data. Reload plus an Archiving solution is what we are recommending at GWAVA.