Backup Procedures
What is 3-2-1 backup rule?
An IT best-practice operations standard for backups that includes keeping three copies of data (original and two backups) on two media, with one copy kept off site.
What is md?
The Windows command to create a directory.
What is striping?
Using space from two or more physical disks to increase the disk space available for a single volume. Performance improves because data is written evenly across all disks. Windows calls RAID 0 a striped volume. Also called striping or striped volume.
What is Sleep timer?
The number of minutes of inactivity before a computer goes into a power-saving state such as sleep mode.
What is Power Options applet?
A Windows applet accessed through Control Panel that manages power settings to conserve power.
What is differential backup?
What is differential backup?
A backup routine that backs up files that have changed or have been created since the last full backup.
What is xcopy?
A Windows command more powerful than the copy command that is used to copy files and folders.
What is mirroring?
Copying one hard drive to another as a backup. Also called RAID 1.
What is hibernation?
A power-saving state that saves all work to the hard drive and powers down the system.
What is Disk Cleanup?
A Windows utility to delete temporary files and free up space on a drive.
What is synthetic?
When recovering a file, folder, or volume from backups, the reconstructed backup that is created from the latest full backup and any incremental or differential backups that contain data more current than the full backup.
What is robocopy?
A Windows command that is similar to and more powerful than the xcopy command; used to copy files and folders.
What is dynamic disk?
A way to partition one or more hard drives so that they can work together to increase space for data storage or to provide fault tolerance or improved performance. Also see RAID. Compare with basic disk.
What is USB selective suspend setting?
A Windows power setting that controls the power state of USB ports when they are not in use; disabling this setting can sometimes solve problems with unreliable USB ports.
What is defragment?
A drive maintenance procedure that rearranges fragments or parts of files on a magnetic hard drive so each file is stored on the drive in contiguous clusters.