A vaulted backup is a backup copy stored in a specially protected location or storage tier designed to resist unauthorized access, modification, or deletion. It matters because not all backup copies deserve the same exposure, especially when some are the last trusted path to recovery.
What is Vaulted Backup?
Vaulting may involve separate credentials, reduced network reachability, stronger retention controls, or provider-managed immutability. It is meant to create a safer backup tier with tighter operational trust boundaries.
What Vaulted Backup Commonly Supports
Common uses include ransomware resilience, high-assurance retention, long-term recovery strategy, and privileged separation.
Vaulted Backup vs. Standard Broadly Accessible Backup Store
Vaulted backup raises the protection level around critical recovery copies. Standard stores may remain too reachable from ordinary administrative paths.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why keep vaulted copies?
Because ordinary backup paths may be too exposed to the same compromise that hits production.
Is vaulting the same as air-gapping?
Not always. They overlap conceptually, but vaulting focuses more on stronger protected storage than total isolation alone.
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