
Glossary GFI Backup 2011 31
6 Glossary
A technology that provides a variety of network services, including LDAP-like
directory services.
Advanced Encryption
Standard
An encryption standard approved by and in use, amongst others, by the
National Security Agency (NSA) of the U.S. Government for the encryption of
sensitive material. While it is slower than ZIP encryption, it is more secure.
See Advanced Encryption Standard
Advanced Intelligent
Tape
A proprietary technology owned by Sony based on helical scan like DAT but
different tape technology. It is not as popular as DAT due to significant cost
difference and the format is considered End-Of-Life. Sony joined HP to
further develop media for DAT/DDS drives.
See Advanced Intelligent Tape
An operation triggered at the GFI Backup Administration Console that
enables an installed agent to be used with GFI Backup.
Actions automatically performed by GFI Backup just before or after a backup
is taken. This includes running applications (for example, anti-virus) and
backup verification.
The location where backups will be located once a backup is completed.
The visual and audio notifications displayed or sent to users on specific
events being triggered, for example, send email notification on backup task
successful execution.
Rules and procedures in force within an organization that enable that
organization to take adequate amounts and types of backup. This includes
testing of the restore processes.
A method used to backup data effectively where different media is moved
from storage to use and vice versa.
The schedule that the backup task will be executed upon, for example,
execute weekly on Thursday at 23:00.
The data that will be backed up by the backup task in question.
The time period during which a system is available for backups.
A user-friendly name used to identify backup tasks name within GFI Backup.
An optical disc storage medium designed to cater for capacities up to 50
Gigabytes.
A mechanism that enables the encoding of information using a reduced
number of bits to represent data. This enables considerable savings in terms
of storage space.
The level of compression applied to a specific data set.
A user name and password used to authenticate users within systems.
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