Hosting & Infrastructure
Off-site Backup
A copy of data stored in a separate geographic location to survive a local disaster.
An off-site backup is a copy of data stored in a physically separate location from the primary systems, so that a fire, flood, theft, or other local disaster cannot destroy both the original data and its backup.
Off-site backups, often kept in a geographically distant data center, are a core part of backup and disaster recovery and help satisfy HIPAA's requirement to protect the availability of ePHI. Backups containing PHI must themselves be encrypted.