Local backup
A local backup a copy of a file or document that is located on the computers hard disk drive. This type of backup provides a minimal guard of ensuring that you have a way to restore your data. This minimal level of safe guard is because if something causes your hard disk drive to fail in your PC, or corrupts your data, you may loose the backup copy also.
Term of the Day
- Saving Email Messages on Various Storage Media
- Email messages are very important files and need to be backed up regularly in order to avoid critical data loss. However, web mail users often... More about Saving Email Messages on Various Storage Media...
Backup Software Glossary
Current glossary explains various terms that you may come across while working with Handy Backup or other backup software.
Handy Backup is a backup utility for Windows Servers and PCs that is famous for its flexibility and ease of use.
The glossary contains 473 terms. The current section Backup Storage contains 21 terms.
Other "Backup Storage" Terms
- Backup Files to DVD
- DVD discs are cheap, transportable, capacious, and generally very convenient for backup purposes. By recording backups to DVD, you protect data from... More about Backup Files to DVD...
- Backup to USB
- By backing up your data to external USB devices, you protect it from several possible sources of data loss at once: User mistake. If you... More about Backup to USB...
- Backup to CD
- To "Backup to CD" means to perform a backup operation, according to which, the files are written to CD. Backup CD is very popular as it is an... More about Backup to CD...
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