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title: Data Protection - A user centric backup approach
description: "Data Protection, a User Centric Approach
Any end-user can choose in the Self-Service Catalog the SLA, the Retention and the Resiliency."
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# [Data Protection - A user centric backup approach](https://www.nodeum.io/blog/data-protection-a-user-centric-backup-approach)

 Written by [Valery Guilleaume](https://www.nodeum.io/blog/author/valery-guilleaume) | 12.12.2019

It’s very common that multiple end-users need to ask the IT OPS to retrieved archived or protected data.

Can they archive it or protect it all by themselves or not?

#### Here are the risks and policies around those important issues :

- IT OPS fear to lose control over the data integrity.
- How to keep control over data management while sharing accesses ?
- Lack of visibility over who accesses what, when, and for what reason.
- Poor visualization of the data workflows (and nobody likes a black box).
- Data integrity can be altered.
- Data can be modified, duplicated, or even lost.

Different industries have different ways of working, different companies have different ways of working and different users have different ways of working ! And this is perfectly right for any team to keep a total autonomy on how they want to work !

#### Technology should never force changes in ways of working

To make it possible, you need to solve these 3 different issues.

**First issue : **

- Back-ups and Archives are often times performed one time and then forgot about. 
- Lack of visibility does not allow end-user to access specific content without sifting through an entire backup.

**Second issue :**

- IT OPS work 24x7. For a seamless handover of work in process, they need total visibility over all data movement.
- End users need access to data and find those that may have been generated by others.

**Third issue :**

- Data and Metadata needs to be protected.
- Data protection is more than just a back-up; it involves multiple stakeholders in the process.
- It should foresee easy recovery and retrieval.
- Business users should be actively involved in how data should be protected.

#### Data protection should be a process-driven software solution

IT OPS and the end users should decide what data is protected and how. And any end-user can choose in the Self-Service Catalog the SLA, the Retention and the Resiliency.

Gone are the days when :

- a back-up file is stored in the basement and no one knows what is on it or where it is.
- a “full back up” needed to be recovered by IT OPS to access only one or a few files needed by one end-user !

Valéry

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