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