We keep historical copies of your data, not just the latest version.
This means that you can rescue data from the silly errors that we all make from time to time. Having historical copies of your data has an even more important benefit: it helps your organization meet the retention requirements for your industry that are set by the government or your organization's security policy. Online Backup can keep over 100 revisions of a file. The number of revisions that we keep varies during the life-cycle of a file, but those many versions are saved throughout the retention term for your account.
In the first 30 days of a file's life, when frequent changes are made to it, we store the greatest number of versions. These many versions assist you with recovering not just the latest version, but what could be the best version that may have been accidentally overwritten locally. As a file ages, the earlier versions of it are condensed from hourly copies to weekly copies, and finally monthly copies, making a complete history of the file. The monthly copies are rolled into yearly copies if you have a 7 year retention plan.
