Recently I’ve been chasing down old medical records. Once you cross the 7-15 year threshold from your last encounter with a healthcare organization, they often

Recently I’ve been chasing down old medical records. Once you cross the 7-15 year threshold from your last encounter with a healthcare organization, they often destroy the records even if they were digitally kept. Sometimes that is not altogether a good thing depending on your personal or genetic/familial medical history. And in the US at least, medical records are generally the property of the provider (organization). Restoration isn’t guaranteed. Less than ten years after I graduated high school, the district had already migrated SIS platforms and had lost my freshman year transcripts. I have the only copy. I’m in the same position as you with respect to having business records that I’m the custodian of, which aren’t readily or realistically restorable if I don’t make my own backup arrangements. For anything truly important, you can’t assume someone else has your disaster recovery interests in mind.