Posts Tagged ‘backups’

Records and information management FAQs – Things to think about when deleting backups January 20, 2016 No Comments

At this time of year, many organisations take the opportunity to clean out storage areas, including network drives and servers. We have received a few enquiries recently from organisations that would like to free up some space by deleting backups. When making decisions about deleting backups, there are a few key things to consider: photo […]

Back up systems are not recordkeeping systems December 21, 2012 No Comments

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dibytes/5935427993/ Last month we reported that backup systems are not recordkeeping systems. Since then, our excellent colleagues at the Public Record Office of Victoria have developed an Issues Paper, Use of Back-up Technology to Archive (comments due 31 December). Their Issues Paper states that the use of backup technologies to archive data will not meet the […]