Talk:Glossary of backup terms

Format

Useful 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

I 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"

Maitchy (talk) 07:58, 24 March 2019 (UTC)