Glossary of Terms

This page is a comprehensive guide to the technical terminology used in the field of data backup and recovery.

Here, you will find an extensive list of terms related to backup and recovery, along with their definitions and explanations.

Our glossary will help you navigate the technical jargon associated with backup and recovery.

Our list includes terms related to backup solutions, storage devices, data recovery, disaster recovery, and more. We have compiled this glossary to help you better understand the concepts and technologies involved in protecting and recovering your data.

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A

Archive

Active backup for Office 365

AWS Backup

Active Directory

Agent

Anti-ransomware solutions

B

Backup

Backup and Recovery

Backup as a service

Bare-metal backup

Backup repository

Backup schedule

Backup Solutions

Business Continuity

C

Cloud Backup

Continuous Data Protection (CDP)

Compression

Consistency check

Cold Backup

D

Data Deduplication

Disaster Recovery (DR)

Differential Backup

Disk-to-Disk (D2D) Backup

E

Encryption

Endpoint Backup

Erasure Coding

Export/Import

Enterprise Backup Software

F

Full Backup

Failover

File-Level Backup

File Sync and Share

Fireproof and Waterproof Storage

G

Grandfather-Father-Son (GFS)

Granular Recovery

Geographically Dispersed Backup

Ghost Imaging

Global Deduplication

H

Hybrid Backup

Hot Backup

High Availability (HA)

Hard Disk Drive (HDD)

Hybrid Cloud Backup

I

Incremental Backup

Image-based Backup

Instant Recovery

Integrity Check

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

J

Journaling

Job Scheduler

Just-in-Time Recovery

Journal-Based Recovery

Jumbo Frames

K

Key Management

Kernel-Based Recovery

Kickstart

Kept Versions

Kill Switch

L

Long-Term Retention

Log-Baged Recovery

Local Backup

Latency

Load Balancing

M

Metadata

Mirroring

Multi-Site Replication

Media Rotation

Mounting

N

Nearline Storage

Network-Attached Storage (NAS)

Non-Destructive Recovery

O

Offsite Backup

Online Backup

Object Storage

Offsite Replication

Open File Backup

Overwrite Protection

One-Click Restore

P

Point-in-Time Recovery

Primary Storage

Physical Backup

Private Cloud Backup

P2V (Physical-to-Virtual) Conversion

Q

Quiesce

Quick Recovery

Quota Management

Quality of Service (QoS)

Query-Based Recovery

R

Recovery Point Objective (RPO)

Recovery Time Objective (RTO)

Replication

Restore

Retention Policy

S

Snapshot

Storage Area Network (SAN)

Secondary Storage

Single Point of Failure (SPOF)

Synthetic Full Backup

T

Tape Backup

Two-Factor Authentication

Thin Provisioning

Test Restore

Transaction Log

U

Universal Restore

V

Versioning

Virtual Machine (VM) Backup

Verification

Vaulting

Virtual Tape Library (VTL)

W

Warm Site

Workload Mobility

WAN Acceleration

Write-Once, Read-Many (WORM)

Windows Backup

X

XOR (Exclusive OR)

Y

Yearly Backup

Z

Zero Data Loss