Mar 7, 2005 12:00
19 yrs ago
English term
Italy
technical translation specialist
Native in: Italian 
Works in: English to Italian, German to Italian, French to Italian, and 2 more.
retrieves (context)
English
Tech/Engineering
Computers (general)
[vendor instructing sale force to sale backup and data recovery software]
"So a good opening question when your customer is purchasing storage or rolling out a new application, is how are you going to secure that data?
Are you going to be doing backup and restores and archives and ***retrieves***?"
...I think "retrieves" refers to data retrieve operations, anyway, for me it's just logical that a company would want to retrieve data they store...why would they want to ask this??
"So a good opening question when your customer is purchasing storage or rolling out a new application, is how are you going to secure that data?
Are you going to be doing backup and restores and archives and ***retrieves***?"
...I think "retrieves" refers to data retrieve operations, anyway, for me it's just logical that a company would want to retrieve data they store...why would they want to ask this??
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10 mins
Kirill Semenov
Ukraine
Ukraine
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Ukraine
60+ books translated and published
Native in: Russian
Works in: English to Russian, Russian
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the retrieval of archived data is not always necessary
Some data are needed to be kept (stored) but may never be required again. Unlike online data (always necessary as transactional data) or nearline data (very likely to be available on demand, not not very often), the archived (backed up) data may not be needed at all.
Also, there are backups just "for a case" (a measure of security to recreate destroyed data if necessary). Such backups also may be just reserved copies never used to restore the system.
The modern practice is usually to keep such archives on tapes, not on hard drives.
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Note added at 16 mins (2005-03-07 12:17:08 GMT)
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So, there are at least two types of offline data which are often stored as archives but rarely needed to be retrieved:
1) backup copies (as a measure of security for a case of data losses);
2) old data kept for compliance reasons (say, records on cancelled bank cheques or old medical images)
Also, there are backups just "for a case" (a measure of security to recreate destroyed data if necessary). Such backups also may be just reserved copies never used to restore the system.
The modern practice is usually to keep such archives on tapes, not on hard drives.
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Note added at 16 mins (2005-03-07 12:17:08 GMT)
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So, there are at least two types of offline data which are often stored as archives but rarely needed to be retrieved:
1) backup copies (as a measure of security for a case of data losses);
2) old data kept for compliance reasons (say, records on cancelled bank cheques or old medical images)
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "thanks!"
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