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Backup or archival software

Technology category · O*NET

Backup or archival software is a technology category in the O*NET database. Across U.S. occupations, 26 report using software or tools in this category. The named products below are the specific examples O*NET records for those jobs. The occupations that use it sit, on average, at the 82nd percentile of AI task-exposure ( high) — how much that work overlaps with what AI can do, not a sign the tool is being replaced. See where every tool category sits.

A Hot tag marks technologies O*NET sees frequently in employer job postings; In demand marks tools an occupation specifically requires.

Example software & tools

Ranked by how many occupations list each product. Each number is an occupation count — a job is counted once per product — so the product rows overlap and do not sum to the category total.

Software / tool Occupations Tags
Veritas NetBackup 23
System and data disaster recovery software 4
Backup and archival software 3
EMC NetWorker 3
Acronis Recovery Expert 2
BMC Software Recovery Manager RMAN 2
Database cloning software 2
HP DataProtector 2
IBM ADSTAR 2
NovaStor NovaBACKUP 2
Oracle Data Guard 2
Storage management software 2
Systems and data disaster recovery software 2
Computer Associates ArcServ Backup 1
Data Recovery Software SQL Server Data Recovery 1
Disaster recovery software 1
Enterprise backup systems 1
Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service 1
Oracle Recovery Manager 1
Roxio Retrospect 1
SugarSync 1
Symantec LiveState 1
Symantec Veritas NetBackup 1
Tape backup system software 1
Zmanda Amanda 1

Occupations that use Backup or archival software

Exposure quadrant: AI task-overlap percentile vs Median pay AI task-overlap (horizontal) versus median pay (vertical), each as a percentile across all scored occupations, for 26 occupations in occupations that use Backup or archival software. Overlap measures shared tasks with AI, not automation. Lower overlap · higher pay Higher overlap · higher pay Higher overlap · lower pay Lower overlap · lower pay General and Operations Managers Intelligence Analysts Medical and Health Services Managers Computer and Information Systems Managers Computer Network Support Specialists Computer User Support Specialists Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive Business Continuity Planners Customer Service Representatives AI task-overlap percentile → ↑ Median pay
Occupations that use Backup or archival software, by AI task-overlap and median pay

How AI is used by roles that use Backup or archival software

A software category is not itself "being automated" — but we can look at the roles that report using Backup or archival software and ask how those people actually use AI. This rolls the Anthropic Economic Index per-role signal up across those roles, weighted by how much observed AI activity each one has. 34.6% of the 26 roles that use this category carry observed AI-usage data (9 roles).

Across those roles, 46.0% of AI conversations are people working with AI and 43.9% hand a task to AI , with an average autonomy of 3.42 / 5.

Collaboration pattern Share What it means
directive 36.9% AI does it; you give the instruction
task iteration 25.8% you and AI go back and forth
learning 17.2% you ask AI to explain or teach
feedback loop 7.1% AI does it, then adjusts from your feedback
validation 3.0% you do it; AI checks your work

Roles behind this signal

The roles using this category that have the most AEI data. "Works with AI" is the role's share of conversations that augment rather than automate.

Occupation Works with AI Autonomy
Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive 36.3% 3.0/5
Operations Research Analysts 55.2% 4.0/5
Computer and Information Systems Managers 67.7% 4.0/5
Management Analysts 62.4% 4.0/5
Customer Service Representatives 35.5% 3.0/5
Business Continuity Planners 67.3% 3.5/5
Medical and Health Services Managers 49.5% 4.0/5
General and Operations Managers 46.8% 3.5/5
Intelligence Analysts 32.9% 3.5/5

Source: Anthropic Economic Index (2026-01-15-v4-plus-2025-03-27-v2) over a sample of Claude.ai Free and Pro conversations — not all AI tools and not the whole workforce. Roles list software categories in O*NET; this does not mean AI is used inside Backup or archival software, only that people in those roles use AI. Some conversations are left unclassified, so shares need not sum to 100.

Industries that concentrate this

Where Backup or archival software matters most across the economy. Employment reach is the share of an industry's workers in occupations that significantly use Backup or archival software (O*NET importance ≥ 3 of 5, or report using the tool category). Concentration compares that reach to the national average industry, so a value above 1× means the requirement is more pervasive here than across the economy as a whole.

Nationally, about 10.6% of workers are in occupations that significantly use Backup or archival software (measured across 67 industries).

Sectors with the most such workers

Sector Workers Employment reach
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services 3,316,450 30.8%
Finance and Insurance 1,555,980 25.0%
Health Care and Social Assistance 1,250,990 5.4%
Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services 1,174,160 13.0%
Retail Trade 1,065,340 6.8%
Information 1,055,530 36.3%
Manufacturing 919,740 7.2%
Educational Services 857,680 6.3%
Management of Companies and Enterprises 852,390 30.3%
Wholesale Trade 826,820 13.7%
Other Services (except Public Administration) 495,280 11.2%
Construction 494,840 6.1%

Industries where it is most concentrated

Industry Level Concentration Employment reach
Direct Health and Medical Insurance Carriers National industry 3.88× 41.1%
Information Sector 3.42× 36.3%
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services Sector 2.91× 30.8%
Management of Companies and Enterprises Sector 2.86× 30.3%
Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities National industry 2.41× 25.5%
Finance and Insurance Sector 2.36× 25.0%
Insurance Agencies and Brokerages National industry 2.34× 24.8%
Labor Unions and Similar Labor Organizations National industry 2.09× 22.2%
Engineering Services National industry 1.59× 16.9%
Utilities Sector 1.48× 15.7%
Wholesale Trade Sector 1.29× 13.7%
Testing Laboratories and Services National industry 1.25× 13.3%

Reach is a measure of how widespread a requirement is across an industry's workforce, not how intensively any individual uses it. Sector worker counts come from BLS OEWS employment; the significance threshold and tool use come from O*NET. Industries shown by concentration are filtered to a real worker base so a tiny specialty cannot top the list on rounding.

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

Data compiled June 3, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

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Plain

Singulariki. "Backup or archival software." Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Built from O*NET 30.3; BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) May 2024; Census NAICS 2022; Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27); “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130; AI Occupational Exposure (AIOE) Felten, Raj & Seamans. Accessed June 7, 2026. https://singulariki.com/tools/backup-or-archival-software

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Singulariki. (2026). Backup or archival software. Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Retrieved June 7, 2026, from https://singulariki.com/tools/backup-or-archival-software

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  title  = {Backup or archival software},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) May 2024; Census NAICS 2022; Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27); “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130; AI Occupational Exposure (AIOE) Felten, Raj & Seamans. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/tools/backup-or-archival-software}
}

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