To combat this trend, many companies are deploying software which properly preserves data across the network, preventing inadvertent data spoliation.

While such high-end storage products can help preserve data for long periods, they are no guarantee against data loss.

This battery helps preserve data stored in a special chip in charge of maintaining information about your computer's hardware.

But tape has a niche as a backup storage, to preserve data in case a disk "crashes."

The data archivist will preserve data along with key supplementary information that is necessary to interpret and put the data in perspective for future generations.

"It has moving parts, which makes it a machine that is used to preserve and communicate data."

A differential backup is a type of data backup that preserves data, saving only the difference in the data since the last full backup.

Another definition is the technology, policies, standards, human resources, and related activities necessary to acquire, process, distribute, use, maintain, and preserve spatial data.

Backup: email migration is performed to back up or preserve data, for example to ensure legal compliance.

Several new types of non-volatile RAM, which will preserve data while powered down, are under development.