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Backup

A backup or the process of backing up is making copies of data which may be used to
restore the original after a data loss event. The verb form is back up in two words, whereas
the noun is backup.[1]
Backups have two distinct purposes.
 The primary purpose is to recover data after its loss, be it by data deletion or
corruption. Data loss is a very common experience of computer users. 67% of
Internet users have suffered serious data loss.
 The secondary purpose of backups is to recover data from an earlier time, according
to a user-defined data retention policy, typically configured within a backup
application for how long copies of data are required.
Though backups popularly represent a simple form of disaster recovery, and should be part of
a disaster recovery plan, by themselves, backups should not alone be considered disaster
recovery. [3] Not all backup systems or backup applications are able to reconstitute a computer
system, or in turn other complex configurations such as a computer cluster, active directory
servers, or a database server, by restoring only data from a backup.
Since a backup system contains at least one copy of all data worth saving, the data storage
requirements are considerable. Organizing this storage space and managing the backup
process is a complicated undertaking. A data repository model can be used to provide
structure to the storage. In the modern era of computing there are many different types of data
storage devices that are useful for making backups. There are also many different ways in
which these devices can be arranged to provide geographic redundancy, data security, and
portability.
Types of back up
Copy backup
A backup that copies all selected files but does not mark each file as having been backed up
(in other words, the archive attribute is not cleared). Copying is useful if you want to back up
files between normal and incremental backups because copying does not affect these other
backup operations.

Daily backup
A backup that copies all selected files that have been modified the day the daily backup is
performed. The backed-up files are not marked as having been backed up (in other words, the
archive attribute is not cleared).

Differential backup
A backup that copies files created or changed since the last normal or incremental backup. It
does not mark files as having been backed up (in other words, the archive attribute is not
cleared). If you are performing a combination of normal and differential backups, restoring
files and folders requires that you have the last normal as well as the last differential backup.

Differential data
Saved copies of changed data that can be applied to an original volume to generate a volume
shadow copy.

Digital signature
A means for originators of a message, file, or other digitally encoded information to bind
their identity to the information. The process of digitally signing information entails
transforming the information, as well as some secret information held by the sender, into a
tag called a signature. Digital signatures are used in public key environments, and they
provide no repudiation and integrity services.

Incremental backup
A backup that copies only those files created or changed since the last normal or incremental
backup. It marks files as having been backed up (in other words, the archive attribute is
cleared). If you use a combination of normal and incremental backups to restore your data,
you will need to have the last normal backup and all incremental backup sets.

Normal backup
A backup that copies all selected files and marks each file as having been backed up (in other
words, the archive attribute is cleared). With normal backups, you need only the most recent
copy of the backup file or tape to restore all of the files. You usually perform a normal
backup the first time you create a backup set.

Incremental backup
A backup that copies only those files created or changed since the last normal or incremental
backup. It marks files as having been backed up (in other words, the archive attribute is
cleared). If you use a combination of normal and incremental backups to restore your data,
you will need to have the last normal backup and all incremental backup sets.

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