is used for the long-term backup of data sets and is important for the subsequent evaluation of data and in particular for the creation of reports and other offline evaluations. In some cases, there are also legal requirements for the archiving of data, or the requirements of quality assurance demand archiving. Examples include the archiving of delivery bills and inventory data. Today, data is almost exclusively stored on electronic data carriers such as hard disks, DVDs, etc., and also on tape in the case of long-term storage with a low probability of access.

Source: logipedia / Fraunhofer IML