Data Mining and Backups

Chris Poelker suggests that data mining can be run against disc-based backups of consolidated date.

IT administrators can use the number of links to an object to find out how many copies of that object are out there in the wild. Then, he can use the metadata about the object itself to search for other information that would normally be too difficult to find if he had to search across all the systems, files, databases and other applications located across the organization, not to mention any remote locations.

-DD