HP B6960-96035 User Manual

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OBDR capable
device

A device that can emulate a CD-ROM drive loaded with a
bootable disk and can thus be used as a backup or boot device
for disaster recovery purposes.

object

See

backup object

.

object
consolidation

The process of merging a restore chain of a backup object,
consisting of a full backup and at least one incremental backup,
into a new, consolidated version of this object. The process is
a part of the synthetic backup procedure. The result is a synthetic
full backup of the specified backup object.

object
consolidation
session

A process that merges a restore chain of a backup object,
consisting of a full backup and at least one incremental backup,
into a new, consolidated version of this object.

object copy

A copy of a specific object version that is created during an
object copy session or a backup session with object mirroring.

object copy session

A process that creates an additional copy of the backed up data
on a different media set. During an object copy session, the
selected backed up objects are copied from the source to the
target media.

object copying

The process of copying selected object versions to a specific
media set. You can select object versions from one or several
backup sessions to be copied.

object ID

(Windows specific term) The object IDs (OIDs) enable access
to NTFS 5 files no matter where in the system the files reside.
Data Protector treats the OIDs as alternate streams of the files.

object mirror

A copy of a backup object created using object mirroring.
Object mirrors are often referred to as object copies.

object mirroring

The process of writing the same data to several media sets
during a backup session. Data Protector enables you to mirror
all or some backup objects to one or more media sets.

offline backup

A backup during which an application database cannot be
used by the application.

For simple backup methods (non ZDB), the database is
generally put into a quiescent state that allows use by the
backup system, but not the application, for the whole backup

Glossary

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