Backup Data Sources

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Backup Data Sources

When high availability of data is required, one of the better ways to ensure that availability is to have backup data sources. These data sources could be:

· Older versions of the data. This is the most common for large sets of data or files that do not intrinsically have another source than a copy of the original data.

· Second sources that can generate the same or very similar data. This is often used in real-time monitoring by having alternate sensors to collect the same data from (electrically) near-by sites

· Calculated data. This is possible if other data can be used to calculate the original value.

When high accuracy of data is required, multiple sources can be used to check against each other. Sometimes voting is included, for instance 2 out of 3 data values must agree before the data is accepted as valid.

Keywords: Backup, high availability, high accuracy