Planning Archive Storage Tiers

Use Cases

Archive storage tiers are designed for one or more of the following use cases:

  • Long-Term Retention for Backup Data

    Backup data which is not actively used to recover operational business services, but must be kept for policy, regulatory, or other purposes.

  • Very Long-Term Retention for Archival Data

    Archival data which is no longer actively used in operational business services, but must be kept available for recovery (at cost), if required by business.

  • Regulatory Retention for Archival Data

    Archival data which is no longer actively used in operational business services, but must be kept available for recovery (at cost), if required for regulatory/compliance reasons.

Solutions

Commvault software supports the following methods to store data in Archive Storage tiers:

  • Combined Storage Tier

    Commvault's combined storage tier stores a small portion of the frequently accessed indexing and metadata in the warm tiers, while storing a major portion of the actual data in the cold tiers, to provide a simplified, cheaper, and quicker data recalls when needed. Combined Storage tier is recommended as it has several benefits. For more information, see Combined Storage Tier.

  • Archive Storage Tier

    Commvault also supports direct storage to the native archive cloud storage services provided by cloud vendors. For more information, see Archive Storage Tier.

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