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Backup and Storage Glossary

 


Welcome to the CMS Backup and Storage glossary. The purpose of this resource is to provide information about common words and expressions related to backup and storage technology.

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A
    ABSplus
    Access Control
    Access Time
    Archival Backup
    AT Attachment (ATA)
    Automatic Backup
    Autosave
 
B
    Backup
    Backup Device
    Backup Exec
    Backup Set
    Bad Block
    Bare Metal Restore
    Bit Density (BPI)
    Bootable CD
    Bootable Disk
    Bootable Drive
    BounceBack
    Burning
 
C
    Capacity
    Cloning
    Cluster
    Cumulative Backup
    Cylinder
 
D
    Data Backup
    Data Encryption
    Data Recovery
    Data Transfer Rate
    Disaster Recovery
 
E
    Encrypted Backup
    Encryption
 
F
    FTP Backup
    Full Backup
 
G
    Ghost Imaging
    Gigabyte
 
H
    Hard Drive
    Hard Drive Partition
    Hard Sectored
    Head
    Head Crash
    Hot Swapping
 
I
    IDE
    Image Backup
    Incremental Backup
    Index
    Internet Backup
 
J
    JBOD
 
K
    Kbps
    Kilobyte
 
L
    Local Backup
    Logical Block Addressing (LBA)
 
M
    Mass Storage
    Mbps (Megabits per second)
    Megabyte
    Mirror Backup
 
N
    Native File Format
 
O
    Offsite
    Offsite Backup
    Overwrite
 
P
    Parity
    Partition
    Petabyte
    Physical Sector
 
Q
 
R
    RAID
    RAID 0
    RAID 0+1
    RAID 1
    RAID 5
    Read/write Head
    Redundant Backup
    Registry Backup
    Removable Storage
    Rescue CD
    Restore
    Rewritable
 
S
    SATA
    Scheduled Backup
    Split Key Encryption
    SRM (storage resource management)
    Storage Capacity
    Storage Density
    Synchronization
    System Backup
 
T
    Tape Backup
    Terabyte
    TPI
 
U
    U3
    Unformatted Capacity
    USB
    USB Flash Drive
 
V
    Versioning
    Vista Backup
    Volume
 
W
 
X
 
Y
 
Z

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