CHAPTER 1 ■ INTRODUCTION TO BACKUP AND RECOVERY
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Summary
When talking about designs of backup solutions, it is important that all people involved in the design
have the same vocabulary. This chapter establishes a baseline vocabulary to allow for the
communication of design elements between disparate types of backups and backup software, as well as
to clarify some elements that tend to be confusing. In the following chapters, the terms defined here will
be applied to designs of backup environments that cover the two largest commercial backup software
products: CommVault Simpana and Symantec NetBackup. However, the concepts contained within
these chapters can also be applied to a number of products with similar architectural components, such ...