process triggered voluntarily or according to established rules which consists of collecting data from the primary storage, and routing these to the secondary storage, to classify these in a logical way in the catalog and to keep these on a long-term basis. The archiving can be of economical, historical or legal nature.
database for recording information about backed-up data (metaThis database is updated during eachdata). This database is updated during each backup, archiving or duplication process and is on the backup server. It is essential to backup the catalog regularly to be able to restore backed-up data.
