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Data retention as well as short-term and longer-term preservation
(archive) needs
Another consideration when comparing data protection techniques,
technologies, and implementations is application-aware data protection.
Application-aware data protection ensures that all data associated with an
application, including software, configuration settings, data, and current
state of the data or transactions, is preserved.
To achieve application-aware and comprehensive data protection, all
data, including memory-resident buffers and caches pertaining to the cur-
rent state of the application, needs to be written to disk. At a minimum,
application-aware data protection involves quiescing (suspending) ...