remote backup

Distant data duplicate

Remote backup is the practice of copying data to a storage location at a different physical site, typically over a network connection.

The distance provides protection against local disasters—fire, flood, theft—that would destroy both original files and on-site backups: The company's remote backup saved them when the office flooded.

Cloud storage services have made remote backup routine for both businesses and individuals.

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offsite · disaster · disaster recovery · ransomware attack · recovery · server · encrypted · automated · archive · restore · data · safeguard · duplicate · mirror · upload · file transfer · scheduled · incremental

Opposites
storage location

remote backuplocal backup

Data saved nearby

internal storage

backup methodology

remote backuptape backup

Data stored on magnetic ribbon

sneakernet · cold storage

backup vs. primary data

remote backuplive data

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