Safeguarding and Data Integrity
Engineered to endure.
Most systems are not designed to safeguard data for decades or longer. Arkivum is. Our safeguarding technology helps you to mitigate against the risk of data corruption or loss, forever.
Confident healthy data is uploaded into the archive
Avoid data corruption, loss and bit-rot
Ensure data endures, forever
The Importance of Cloud Archive Solutions for Data Safeguarding
The risk of data becoming corrupted over time is unavoidable. The risk of this occurring only increases with time. Digital safeguarding is crucial for any organisation seeking to retain digital content for more than 5 years.
Physical media (e.g. hard drives, CDs, USBs) and cloud file-sharing solutions (e.g. SharePoint and Dropbox) do not protect against corruption and loss. They have not been designed with archiving in mind.
Without the right tools and processes in place, your data is at risk. Leverage digital safeguarding good practice to quickly identify issues and resolve them.
Safeguarding Features
Arkivum’s digital safeguarding tools provide customers with peace of mind that their data is protected against corruption, loss and bit rot. We make it easy to transfer data in our archive, where it is actively managed and safeguarded against time.
Features include:
- Data is stored within multiple cloud locations. A minimum of two different geographical locations, with the option of a third if required.
- Automated data integrity checks on ingest/upload. Healthy data into the archive.
- Ongoing data integrity checks throughout the lifecycle of the data. Quickly identify data corruption or loss.
- Support organisational processes to resolve any data integrity issues.
- Data is immutable during ingest and once in the archive.
- Additional storage options include a range of tiered storage and third-party data escrow services.
See all these features in action by clicking through our guided demo below.
Safeguarding and Data Integrity FAQs
Where is my data stored?
The Arkivum solution is hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS). We typically store customers’ data in a minimum of two separate geographic locations, aligned with a customer’s data sovereignty requirements. An optional third escrow copy can be stored with Microsoft Azure if required.
What file types can I archive?
It is possible to upload any data types into the Arkivum solution. For more advanced functionality such as preservation, the system supports well over one hundred of the most common formats. If you would like to discuss your requirements in more detail, please contact us.
Is there a limit to how much data I can archive?
No, the Arkivum solution has been built to scale with customer requirements and leverages the power of hyper-scale cloud environments. Arkivum has experience in managing datasets at the petabyte scale and across millions of records.
How do I know if my data has become corrupted?
Whenever a data integrity check is conducted (called a fixity check), the system uses a checksum to compare each to how the original looked when it entered the archive. The results of these checks (including any errors) are reported within the fixity report within the system.
Can I choose geographically where my data is stored?
Yes, Arkivum provides options for customers to align with their data sovereignty requirements.
Why do I need to safeguard my data if it’s already backed up?
Backup solutions are typically designed to recover from short-term disaster recovery. Most backup systems will create a snapshot of your data regularly, eventually replacing older backups. In this way, if data becomes corrupted, then a backup system will simply keep taking snapshots of the corrupted files.
Digital safeguarding differs, by being designed to protect data against the challenges of time, and the increased risk of corruption and bit rot.
Can I upload Zip folders to the Arkivum solution?
Yes, it is possible to upload Zip folders to the Arkivum solution. Users can also choose whether a zip file will be uploaded as is, or if it should be unpacked as part of the upload process.