Is my data secure on Victorian Collections?
The Victorian Collections system and website is hosted by Museums Victoria. The same systems and protocols Museums Victoria follow relating to security, backup, disaster recovery, and the like are much the same as those used for managing Victorian Collections. Data is stored on a server on-site and replicated off-site. Backups are run daily and are stored both on and off-site.
The hosting operating system has in-built data validation and protections; however an update to the Collections Management System in a few months will make this more explicit with inbuilt automatic storage of checksums (a digit representing the sum of the correct digits in a piece of stored or transmitted digital data, against which later comparisons can be made to detect errors in the data) and periodic file verification checks.
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