What does electronic vaulting accomplish?

Electronic vaulting is a process where an organization's critical data files are automatically and securely transmitted to an off-site storage facility, primarily to protect against data loss from local disasters and ensure business continuity. This method ensures that copies of essential data are available for recovery if the primary data is compromised or destroyed.

Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) systems provide data redundancy and performance benefits *within* a local storage server, protecting against individual disk failures but not against site-wide disasters or complete data loss.

Striping database records is a disk storage technique that distributes data across multiple drives to improve performance and is unrelated to the off-site secure storage provided by electronic vaulting.

While electronic vaulting is a crucial component of a Disaster Recovery Process (DRP) by providing off-site data availability, it does not encompass the full automation of the entire DRP, which includes planning, testing, and other recovery procedures.