Backup Terms Glossary

This glossary of data backup terms contains specific words and phrases that you may come across while working with computer backup and recovery software. Here you can find definitions of backup terms used on this website and in Handy Backup: everything regarding file backup, image backup, database backup, network backup and much more.

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For convenience in browsing, the glossary has been divided alphabetically and by category. If you are looking for information on the term "AES" or the word "network" simply click the letters "A" or "N" in the alphabet listing and find what you need. To learn definitions from some specific area, click the name of a category below. Short previews of the categories are given after the list of categories.

Backup Terms Categories

All terms are divided into categories, as follows:

• Backup Practices
• Backup Software Features
• Backup Storage
• Data for Backup
• Data Management
• Databases
• Devices to Back Up From
• Email Management
• Encryption
• File Management
• General IT
• IT Companies
• Network
• Program Backup
• Software
• Storage Management
• Storage Media
• Types of Backup
• Uncategorized

Most popular terms from each category are given below. For more rarely searched words, please go to the respective section, or use the alphabet listing. Also, you can use a search form on the top of the page.

Backup Practices

• Restore Favorite
  “It means to restore a backup copy of your Favorites folder. ”
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• LAN Free Backup
  “The term LAN free backup is used to describe the process of backing up data without transferring it across LAN or WAN. This approach is highly...”
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• Sync Computers
  “There are a variety of reasons why you may encounter the challenge to synchronize multiple computers. Firstly, you may want to synchronize photos...”
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• PC Synchronization Software
  “PC synchronization software is a class of computer applications designed to synchronize folders and files between multiple locations. Basically...”
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• Backup System
  “An abundance of hardware and software solutions for PC backup has a simple explanation: there can't be an ultimate backup system which will suit all...”
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• Restore Outlook Express
  “Restore Outlook Express means restore of Outlook Express files and settings from backup's files in case of any Outlook Express data loss. Of course...”
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Backup Software Features

• Backup Service
  “Backup services are services that are designed to let users back up files and folders to network storage systems (commonly, via the Internet)...”
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• Automatic Backup
  “An automatic backup is possible when a backup software supports scheduling, like Handy Backup for instance. Then a backup runs automatically on a set...”
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• PIM synchronization
  “PIM stands for Personal Information Manager. The PIM synchronization program is a kind of program that synchronizes your personal info such as...”
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• Encrypted Backup
  “An encrypted backup is a backup, which was encrypted using one of the encryption algorithms. Handy Backup supports encrypted backup. Encrypted...”
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• Auto Backup
  “Backuping data to the disk at periodic intervals without user intervention. This function is useful among backup software. The advantage of an auto...”
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• Backup Log
  “A backup log is a log where all the information about the backup process is written. It usually shows whether the files were written or not to the...”
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Backup Storage

• Auto Backing Up to Remote FTP
  “To “Back up to FTP” means to perform a backup operation, according to which, the files are written to FTP server. Backup to remote FTP...”
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• Backup to HDD
  “The easiest way to secure data from loss is to back them up to a separate folder on your HDD, which you won’t touch during everyday work. In...”
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• Remote Backup | Back up to remote servers
  “Remote backup is a copy of a set of data (important documents, folders, database dumps, etc.) that is not located on the local computer's hard disk...”
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• Remote Backup
  “Remote backup is one of the most actively developing areas of backup, gaining popularity day by day. Backups stored on remote servers are very...”
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• Backup Destination
  “ A backup destination is a destination, where the selected backup files are backed up to. The destination may vary from a local hard disk, a CD or...”
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• Backup Location
  “A backup location may mean both where the files are physically stored and their accurate location on the medium. Firstly, it is important to choose a...”
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Data for Backup

• File Backup
  “A file backup is a backup operation in which any files, mostly data files, are backed up. ”
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• Save Data
  “It means to save information, music, software or smth else to the saving device. It is vere usefull to backup your datas. "Saving data to your local...”
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• Web site backup
  “Web site backup is a backup of web site contents from an FTP server. This is mostly done to have a copy of files on a local hard disk to be able to...”
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• Backup Files
  “Backup files are those files which are backed up to high capacity disk drives or a separate disk sub-system, which represent the organisation's...”
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• Save WWW Files
  “Nowadays, almost anyone has a website. But what does one do if the FTP server crashes, some file gets deleted or changed and is not recoverable? How...”
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• How to Backup Folders | Folder backup programs
  “Folder backup is a flexible approach to data backup, where the amount of files being backed up is not constant and can change from time to time...”
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Data Management

• Copy Prevention
  “A system for preventing the unauthorized reproduction of copyrighted media like movies or music. The DVD format includes both digital and analog...”
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• File synchronization between three computers
  “File synchronization between three computers is a process of copying the newest files between the involved computers so that each of them has the...”
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• Directory structure
  “Directory structure represents the layout of the folders, the way they were created on a disk. It is best shown in a directory tree, where it is...”
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• Folder
  “A folder, in graphical user interfaces, such as Windows and the Macintosh environment, is a folder is an object that can contain multiple documents...”
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• Span Backup to DVDs
  “To span backup to DVD means to split the backup data to multiple DVDs, if a backup is too large to store on a single disc. This backup will be called...”
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• Data synchronization
  “Data synchronization is a process of synchronizing data between two locations. Handy Backup can perform file synchronization. As with the whole...”
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Databases

• Foreign Key
  “Foreign key is a field in a “child” table of a database that is used to refer to a record in a “parent” table of the same...”
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• Logical Backup
  “Logical backup is a copy of objects used in an application (e.g. database tables), that is made by accessing them through the application’s...”
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• MySQL Clustering
  “MySQL clustering is a technology that allows distributing the MySQL database across multiple independent nodes, to eliminate every possibility of...”
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• InnoDB: Definition of InnoDB, Target Uses of the InnoDB Storage Engine
  “InnoDB is a data storage engine used by default in MySQL database since version 5.5. It has a strong focus on reliability and performance, and...”
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• Database Storage Engine
  “Database storage engine is a mechanism employed by database management software that defines how it stores and handles data. Different DBMS have...”
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• MySQL Replication
  “MySQL replication is an advanced feature of the MySQL DBMS that enables new and modified data from one database (Master) to be automatically copied...”
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Devices to Back Up From

• Compact Flash card backup
  “Compact Flash card backup is a backup of entire contents of a card, based on the Compact Flash interface. Compact Flash card backup can be done to...”
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• Net Backup
  “Net backup is backup your important data to another computer of your network. The easiest way to perform network backups is probably to backup you...”
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• Save Files
  “To copy the document, record or image being worked on onto a storage medium. Saving updates the file by writing the data that currently resides in...”
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• Workstation Backup Software
  “Network Workstation Backup Software is a type data protection utility intended to manage a process of backing up a computer hooked to a local...”
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• Hard Disk Backup
  “A hard disk backup is a backup of entire contents of a hard disk, same as hard drive backup. Now nearly every backup program can do a hard disk...”
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• Network Computer Backup
  “Network computer backup is a backup of some data from a network computer, most likely to another network computer. Handy Backup can perform a network...”
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Email Management

• User Manuals to Protect Your Mail
  “If asked what they think the most important thing about email is, most users would say security without hesitation. And this is true. No matter what...”
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• Microsoft Exchange Troubleshooting Assistant
  “A tool used by Microsoft Exchange for automatic search for data required to troubleshoot the observed symptoms. Also used to collect live tracing...”
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• Backup Outlook File
  “Backup Outlook files means make a backup copy of Outlook files to be able to recover it after a computer crash, a virus or system re-installation. ...”
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• Backup Outlook Address Book
  “Backups of Outlook Address Book should be made regularly, as one of the measures taken in order to prevent the loss of Outlook contacts. Basically...”
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• Saving Email Messages on Various Storage Media
  “Email messages are very important files and need to be backed up regularly in order to avoid critical data loss. However, web mail users often...”
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• Exchange server client
  “An multi-purpose messaging application installed on a computer or a mobile device, capable of accessing Microsoft Exchange Server and operating with...”
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Encryption

• AES
  “AES, Short for Advanced Encryption Standard, is a symmetric 128-bit block data encryption technique developed by Belgian cryptographers Joan Daemen...”
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• RC4
  “RC4 is a variable key-size stream cipher with byte-oriented operations. The algorithm is based on the use of a random permutation. ”
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• Blowfish Encryption Algorithm
  “The blowfish encryption algorithm is a symmetric encryption algorithm designed by Bruce Schneier in 1993 as an alternative to existing encryption...”
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• RC6
  “RC6 is a block cipher based on RC5. RC6 is a parameterized algorithm where the block size, the key size, and the number of rounds are variable. The...”
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• Decryption
  “Decryption is a process of decoding encrypted data back to its original form using the same encryption method and most likely the same application...”
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• RC5
  “RC5 is a parameterized algorithm with a variable block size, a variable key size, and a variable number of rounds. Allowable choices for the block...”
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File Management

• Backup data files
  “ To "backup data files" means to backup all the documents, or any other files containing important information. A backup of data files can be easily...”
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• Windows File Synchronization
  “Windows file synchronization is a process of copying Windows files to a different place that results in appearance of two or more identical folders...”
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• Duplication
  “Duplication is a process of copying the entire contents of a single medium to one or more media of the same time. Nowadays, special equipment can be...”
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• Backup history
  “Backup history is a composition of backups, performed during the recent period. It is a good idea to keep the backup history if it turns out that...”
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• File Save
  “To copy the document, record or image being worked on onto a storage medium. Saving updates the file by writing the data that currently resides in...”
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• Autosave
  “Saving data to the disk at periodic intervals without user intervention. This function is usefull among automatic backup programs. The advantage of...”
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General IT

• Archive
  “An archive is a long-term data storage (greater than or equal to 1 year). It may also mean the location where long-term data is stored (generally...”
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• copy
  “ noun (pl. copies) 1 a thing made to be similar or identical to another. 2 a single specimen of a particular book, record, etc. 3 matter...”
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• Password
  “A secret series of characters, typically alphanumeric (meaning it consists of both letters and numbers) that enables a user to access a file...”
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• data
  “Data usually means the following: - Distinct pieces of information, usually formatted in a special way. All software is divided into two general...”
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• Cut Paste
  “Cut and Paste is about computer text editing. For arheological properties of pastes such as toothpaste or putty, see Paste (rheology). In...”
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• Device
  “A device is any machine or component that attaches to a computer. Examples of devices include disk drives, printers, mice, and modems. These...”
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IT Companies

• International Business Machines Corporation (IBM)
  “International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is a multinational computer technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New...”
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• Quantum Corporation
  “Quantum Corporation, was a manufacturer of tape drive products, based in San Jose, California. From its founding in 1980 until 2000, it was also a...”
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• Maxtor Corporation
  “Maxtor Corporation, was an American manufacturer of computer hard disk drives founded in 1982. In 2000 it Purchased Quantum's hard disk line of...”
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• Fujitsu
  “Fujitsu is one of hard drive manufacturers. Fujitsu is a Japanese company specializing in semiconductors, computers (supercomputers, personal...”
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• Western Digital Corporation
  “Western Digital Corporation , (often abbreviated to WD) is a manufacturer of a large proportion of the world's hard disks, and has a long history in...”
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• Samsung
  “Samsung, hard drives are products of the Samsung Electronics that is a South Korean Multinational Corporation and one of the world's largest...”
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Network

• WebDAV File Versioning
  “The WebDAV protocol is an extension to the HTTP protocol, allowing numerous authors edit a single document at a time without altering each others...”
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• SSH
  “SSH is both a computer program and an associated network protocol, developed for logging into and executing commands on a network computer and moving...”
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• IP Address
  “IP Address or 'Internet Protocol' is the numeric address that guides all Internet traffic, such as e-mail and Web traffic, to its destination. The IP...”
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• Network Administration
  “A network administration is a group of network management functions that (a) provide support services, (b) ensure that the network is used...”
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• SSH file transfer protocol
  “SSH File Transfer Protocol, or SFTP, a protocol, allowing to transfer files over the Internet employing SSH-2 protocol. It is based on the RCP...”
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• Proxy server
  “A proxy server is a computer server which acts in the place of individual users when connecting to Web sites. The proxy server receives requests from...”
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Program Backup

• MSN Messenger Backup by Software Means
  “MSN Messenger backup is a copy of data stored in MSN messanger that are kept to be order to roll back to the past in case of a loss or corruption...”
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• MySQL Backup
  “MySQL backup is a copy of MySQL database created for the purpose of safety and business continuity. Since SQL databases are a common part of...”
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• Outlook Express Backup
  “An Outlook Express backup is a backup of the Microsoft Outlook Express files. Handy Backup can easily add Outlook Express files to the backup set, ...”
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• Computer Database Backup
  “In our times the work of a specialist, directing personnel, is meaningless without effective use of a computer database of workers' files. A...”
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• Oracle Database Backup
  “Oracle Backup is a process, or a result of copying data stored in an Oracle Database. Backups, generally, may consist of several different things: ...”
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• Outlook Express Message Backup
  “Do a backup copy of Outlook Express message to a writable CD/DVD-ROM drive, floppies, USB drives and other media storage. You can perform outlook...”
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Software

• Upgrade
  “Upgrade is a process of replacing a version of software or hardware with a newer product release designed to meet new requirements, or generally...”
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• Copy Software
  “Copy Software are computer programs which create copies of data from a computer system so that it can be stored separately and used to replace the...”
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• Dos copy
  “An internal command for making duplicate disk files. The DOS Copy command is widely used in Windows by programmers and power users. COPY TO/FROM...”
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• Backup Software
  “Backup software is a program or an utility that can perform a backup, Handy Backup, for intsance. Includes a wide range of backup programs...”
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• Graphical SFTP Client
  “A graphical SFTP client is an application, allowing transferring files to online web servers using SFTP protocol. Usually a graphical SFTP client has...”
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• Backup for Windows
  “A program may be referred to as a 'backup for Windows' if it is a backup program that can run under Windows environment. Windows being the most...”
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Storage Management

• CD ROM Replication
  “CD ROM replication is a process of manufacturing a CD ROM from scratch using a single original disc. The result of the CD ROM replication process is...”
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• Copy DVD
  “DVD copying is the process of data transferring that involves one or several DVD discs. Similar to any other type of copying, it can be performed for...”
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• Disc duplication
  “Disc duplication is a process of copying the entire contents, be it data files or audio, of one disc to another. Usually special equipment is used...”
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• Grandfather-father-son rotation
  “Grandfather-father-son rotation is the Grandfather-father-son rotation schedule. Currently, Handy Backup does not support the...”
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• CD Copy
  “CD copy is a duplicate of data of a CD discs that is stored in a different place. If CD copies are made for the purpose of saving data from loss or...”
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• DVD Duplication
  “DVD duplication is a process of copying the entire contents of a DVD disc (be it data files or audio) to a different DVD disc. This procedure usually...”
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Storage Media

• Zip drive
  “A zip drive is a high-capacity floppy disk drive originally developed by Iomega Corporation. Zip disks can hold 100 or 250 MB of data, and they are...”
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• xd picture drive
  “Another format aimed at very small digital cameras, developed by Olympus, Fujifilm, and Toshiba.xD-Picture Card provides the highest capacity in one...”
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• RS MMC
  “The RS-MMC card is approximately half the size of the full MultiMediaCard. Having the same width and thickness, RS-MMC measures 18mm from top to...”
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• USB key
  “n. a hardware key connected to a USB port. It used to login user to the enitire computer. Every computer have it's own appropriate keys. It is made...”
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• Disk
  “A disk is a round plate on which data can be encoded. There are two basic types of disks: magnetic disks and optical disks. On magnetic disks...”
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• SATA
  “SATA, is short for Serial ATA. SATA 1.0 was first released in August 2001 and is a replacement for the Parallel ATA interface used in IBM compatible...”
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Types of Backup

• Cumulative Incremental Backup
  “A cumulative incremental backup is a backup of all data files that have been modified since the last archival backup. Some backup programs employ...”
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• Grandfather-father-son backup
  “A Grandfather-father-son backup is a backup according to the most widely used backup rotation schedule Grandfather-father-son. Currently, Handy...”
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• Backup rotation schedule
  “Backup rotation schedule is a schedule, which defines how often a backup is performed, how the data is backed up, which media is used and the amount...”
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• Serverless Backup: Hardware and Software Solutions
  “Serverless backup is a type of LAN free backup that does not use any of the resources of an application server or a backup server. To see an example...”
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• Full Backup
  “A full backup is a copy of all selected files (sometimes most of hard disk files), kept on a different storage media, for use in emergencies. It...”
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• Image Backup. Hard Disk Drive Imaging.
  “Image backup, also called disk image, or HDD snapshot, is a backup of a hard drive that is created through “sector-by-sector” copying of...”
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Uncategorized

• Secure Sockets Layer
  “Secure Sockets Layer, or SSL, is a protocol that provides a secured communication on the Internet by encrypting the information. It is layered...”
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• SyncML
  “SyncML is an open standard for information synchronization. It stands for Synchronization Markup Language. SyncML was developed by OMA and is...”
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• Copy right
  “computer programs which create copies of the information on a computer system so that it can be stored separately and used to replace the original...”
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• Socket Flash
  “Flash memory that is housed in a standard chip package and plugs into a socket on the circuit board. A flash BIOS is an example. Contrast with flash...”
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• PATA
  “PATA, is short for Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment, this abbreviation was introduced for the original ATA interface when SATA had appeared...”
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• Copycat
  “1)One that closely imitates or mimics another. Comp. It means Smb who makes illegal copy of smth. 2)someone who copies the words or behavior of...”
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