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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
    Instant PC Recovery
    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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