offsite storage
Distant holding facility
Offsite storage is the practice of keeping data, documents, or physical items at a location separate from where they're primarily used.
Businesses use offsite storage for disaster recovery—if the main site burns down, backups survive elsewhere: We keep weekly backups in offsite storage.
The term applies equally to digital archives in remote data centers and boxes of records in a warehouse across town.
- warehouseBulk goods storage building
- backupStored duplicate for recovery
- cloud backupData stored on distant servers
- archiveStored historical records
- vaultSecure storage chamber
facility · remote · off the grid · data · boxes · records · business records · retrieval · climate-controlled · climate control · secure · inventory · pallets · documents · file boxes · tapes · disaster · recovery
- disaster recoverydisaster recovery, business continuity, recovery plan, failover, RTO
- records managementrecordkeeping, record keeping, document management, data retention, file management
- archivesnational archives, state archives, archivist, archive box, national archive
- art storageflat file