Talk:Glossary of backup terms
Latest comment: 5 years ago by Maitchy in topic Terms to add
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Format
editUseful glossary. Perhaps worth presenting as a table? Neils51 (talk) 21:32, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
...and perhaps include columns for pictures or links to software/hardware that relate to particular terms rather than just a general "See also" at the end for anything related to any term? Maitchy (talk) 07:58, 24 March 2019 (UTC)
Terms to add
editI suggest (and if I had time might some day add, if nobody has done so already):
- generations (relates to rotation)
- grandfather-father-son backups (i.e. when 2 earlier backup generations are kept before deletion/being overwritten)
- offline storage
- backup media (and 9-track tape, portable/floppy/removable/USB disks and other historical terms)
- archive format (and zip, zoo, arc, tarball and maybe cpio)
- archive bit (in filesystems such as FAT that indicates a file has been changed since the last backup)
- off-site backup
- sector-by-sector backup (pretty much the same as disk cloning?)
- redundant filesystems (and Distributed File Systems, etc)
- change logs
- "update" archives compared with "freshen" archives
- possibly rsync?
- possibly write-once media (and implications for proof of date for patents?)?
- paper backups (i.e. hardcopy produced in case a computer system catastrophe means organisation's data unavailable for a long time)
- system backups compared with user backups
- save (or backup) to "the cloud"