High availability can range from seconds to a few minutes to less than an hour. Backup and archive should have almost equal priority with each other. Backup is designed to store many versions of a data set that will exceed the versioning capabilities of most replication technologies. Archive should more often be used to recover old versions of data as part of a legal action or when a project is re-activated. Storage Switzerland’s George Crump is lead analyst of Storage Switzerland, an IT analyst firm focused on the storage and virtualization segments.”]
Source: https://www.darkreading.com/database-security/establishing-tiered-recovery-points