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7 Email Archiving Best Practices Every IT Pro Needs to Know
If your organization has a strong backup strategy in place, you may think you don’t need to bother with email retention. That is a common misconception, because on the surface, backing up emails and archiving emails seem like they serve the same purpose. In reality, the two are used for completely different functions, and you need to do both.
Email backups are primarily used for disaster recovery. The backup is essentially a snapshot of the data at a given time. When a new backup is deployed, the old backup is replaced, and the new version becomes the data that will be used for recovery. If emails are mistakenly deleted or corrupted just before a new backup is done, those emails are gone for good.