What is considered best practices in terms of backup vaulting (offsite storage) frequency?
There seems to be a belief that if you’re a smaller shop or smaller business, you don’t have a lot of data, and you don’t need to send your data offsite very often. A lot of times, the decision to send tapes offsite is dictated, unfortunately, by the growing capacity of tape media. If you’re backing up 100 gigabytes a week, it becomes embarrassing to a lot of folks to send that tape cartridge offsite because it’s not full. So, a lot of companies have a tendency to want to fill that tape before they send it offsite — which is a big, big mistake. Regardless of the size of the organization, there is an equal requirement to protect your data. Because you’re a smaller company doesn’t mean you can afford to go out of business. But unfortunately, there’s this perception that tapes have to be filled up. From our perspective, we always say the best practice is daily. Again, this is closely tied with your recovery point objective (RPO). If your RPO is 24 hours, meaning that I can afford to lose
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