Handy Backup Glossary | Index: S

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• Seagate Technology
• Seagate Technology, is a major American manufacturer of hard drives, founded in 1979 and based in Scotts Valley, California. The company is... More about Seagate Technology...

• SATA
• SATA, is short for Serial ATA. SATA 1.0 was first released in August 2001 and is a replacement for the Parallel ATA interface used in IBM compatible... More about SATA...

• Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)
• Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) , is a computer bus technology primarily designed for transfer of data to and from devices like hard drives, CD-ROM drives... More about Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)...

• Samsung
• Samsung, hard drives are products of the Samsung Electronics that is a South Korean Multinational Corporation and one of the world's largest... More about Samsung...

• Save Attachment
• Messages that contain the file attachments, in this context we can say that "save attachment" means to save file attached to the massage. There are... More about Save Attachment...

• Save Data
• It means to save information, music, software or smth else to the saving device. It is vere usefull to backup your datas. "Saving data to your local... More about Save Data...

• Save Desktop
• It means to save desktop icon(s), that show cabinets, files, folders, and various types of documents (that is, letters, reports, pictures) and icons... More about Save Desktop...

• Save Desktop Icon(s)
• It means to save desktop icon(s), that show cabinets, files, folders, and various types of documents (that is, letters, reports, pictures) and icons... More about Save Desktop Icon(s)...

• Save Document
• It means to save a document to your personal computer, writable CD/DVD-ROM drive, floppies, USB drives or other media storage. See also Save... More about Save Document...

• Save Favorite
• It means to save the Favorites folder or item of the Favorite folder to your personal computer, writable CD/DVD-ROM drive, floppies, USB drives or... More about Save Favorite...

• Save Files
• To copy the document, record or image being worked on onto a storage medium. Saving updates the file by writing the data that currently resides in... More about Save Files...

• Save Flash
• 1)Flash Saving is saving flash movies from Browser. 2)To save all information from flash memory to another device. More about Save Flash...

• Save Outlook Email
• It means to save an Outlook email's data to your personal computer, writable CD/DVD-ROM drive, floppies, USB drives or other media storage. With... More about Save Outlook Email...

• Save Settings
• It means to save settings information to your personal computer, writable CD/DVD-ROM drive, floppies, USB drives or other media storage. More about Save Settings...

• Save Site Password
• It means to save your site password to your computer in special file. In future, you do not have to type your username and password every time you... More about Save Site Password...

• 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...

• Scheduler
• A scheduler is usually a scheme of setting time for an operation. Scheduler allows performing an operation when the user is away from the computer... More about Scheduler...

• Scheduling
• Scheduling is a process of or a notion meaning assigning special time when an operation needs to be launched. In this case a scheduler is used, which... More about Scheduling...

• Scheduled Backup
• A scheduled backup is a backup, performed on schedule, which has been set beforehand. Usually is useful to set a backup on schedule and no longer... More about Scheduled Backup...

• SD Memory Card
• (Secure Digital Memory Card) A flash memory card that provides storage for digital cameras, cellphones and PDAs. SD Memory Cards use the same 32x24mm... More about SD Memory Card...

• Secure Digital
• Supported by the SD Card Association (SDA), this compact type of memory card allows for fast data transfer and has built-in security functions to... More about Secure Digital...

• Secure FTP
• Secure FTP is a protocol, combining FTP and SSH or SSL to secure the connection. Mostly, this secures only the command transfer channel, while file... More about Secure FTP...

• Secure FTP connection
• A secure FTP connection can be achieved by using the Secure FTP protocol, which combines both FTP and SSH (or SSL) or any other encryption. This... More about Secure FTP connection...

• Secure MMC
• Two secure versions of the MultiMediaCard are offered. SecureMMC for Content Protection is used for copyrighted material. It contains encrypted... More about Secure MMC...

• Secure Sockets Layer
• Secure Sockets Layer, or SSL, is a protocol that provides a secured communication on the Internet by encrypting the information. It is layered... More about Secure Sockets Layer...

• Self-extracting file
• Self-extracting file A self-extracting file is a type of file that contains other files that have been compressed (typically through a ZIP program)... More about Self-extracting file...

• Server Administration
• It is a process whic manage the computer systems in an organization. The responsibilities of a administration often overlap; however, the system... More about Server Administration...

• Server Backup Plan: What and How
• Server backup means to copy data from server to another place. FTP protocol is frequently used for this task. With Handy Backup you can easily... More about Server Backup Plan: What and How...

• Serverless Backup: Hardware and Software Solutions
• Serverless backup is a type of LAN free backup that does not use any of the resources of an application server or a backup server. To see an example... More about Serverless Backup: Hardware and Software Solutions...

• Site Backup
• To backup site means to copy the files from the FTP server, where the website is located, to a local hard disk or any other device. Usually this is... More about Site Backup...

• Server backup strategy
• Server backup strategy is a strategy, applied to the process of server backup, regulating various parameters, like how much data is backed up at a... More about Server backup strategy...

• SFTP
• SFTP may mean one of the following: SSH File Transfer Protocol, which a file transfer protocol employing the SSH-2 protocol to secure connection. or... More about SFTP...

• Shallow copy
• A shallow copy is a duplicate reference to some structure, e.g. to a variable, file, folder, or other object. In contrast to a "deep copy" which is... More about Shallow copy...

• Cut Copy
• Site copy is any technical measure designed to create copy of a website somewhere. It is used to prevent site crush. For automatically copying... More about Cut Copy...

• Smart Media
• Designed for use with digital still cameras, PDA's, MP3 players and other electronic products that use SmartMediaT cards as standard or extended data... More about Smart Media...

• Smartmedia
• Bigger in surface than CompactFlash but much thinner, they are more fragile and known to be less reliable. This format is gradually being phased out... More about Smartmedia...

• SSH
• SSH is both a computer program and an associated network protocol, developed for logging into and executing commands on a network computer and moving... More about SSH...

• SSH file transfer protocol
• SSH File Transfer Protocol, or SFTP, a protocol, allowing to transfer files over the Internet employing SSH-2 protocol. It is based on the RCP... More about SSH file transfer protocol...

• SSH-2
• SSH-2 is protocol, an updated variant of SSH. It has better security through introducing the Diffie-Hellman key exchange and strong integrity... More about SSH-2...

• SSL
• SSL, or Secure Sockets Layer, is a protocol that provides a secured communication on the Internet by encrypting the information. It is layered... More about SSL...

• Simple backup
• A simple backup is the elementary type of files backup. Each time a compressed archive file is created, the new version of backup file replaces the... More about Simple backup...

• Socket Flash
• Flash memory that is housed in a standard chip package and plugs into a socket on the circuit board. A flash BIOS is an example. Contrast with flash... More about Socket Flash...

• Software
• Instructions for the computer. A series of instructions that performs a particular task is called a "program." The two major categories of software... More about Software...

• Span
• To span means to split a large volume of data, exceeding a size of a medium, to several media. This is widely used in backup operations, as backups... More about Span...

• Span Backup to CD
• To span backup to CD means to split the backup data to multiple CDs, if a backup is too large to store on a single disc. This backup will be called... More about Span Backup to CD...

• Span Backup to DVD
• Span backup to DVD is a feature of Handy Backup designed to let users back up large files to DVD discs. Though DVD discs are acknowledged as the most... More about Span Backup to DVD...

• Spanning
• Spanning is a process of dividing a large volume of data over several media. A span is a supported function in a program, which can divide large... More about Spanning...

• Storage media
• Storage media is any storage device, external, internal, fixed or removable, used for data storage. It can be literally anything one can copy data to... More about Storage media...

• Subdirectory
• Subdirectory is a directory below another directory. Every directory except the root directory is a subdirectory. In Windows 95 and Windows/NT... More about Subdirectory...

• Symmetric key cryptography
•    Symmetric-key cryptography is an encryption system in which the sender and receiver of a message share a single, common key that is... More about Symmetric key cryptography...

• Synchronization
• Synchronization is coordination with respect to time. Handy Backup supports synchronization of files and folders. When referring to files... More about Synchronization...

• Synchronization manager
• Synchronization manager is manager software, which manages the synchronization process between two instances. Handy Backup is a backup program and... More about Synchronization manager...

• Synchronization Software
• Synchronization software is a type of computer applications designed to help users keep two locations in sync. Unlike manual synchronization... More about Synchronization Software...

• Synchronize files on schedule
• To synchronize files on a schedule is a process of file synchronization between computers using a scheduler. It is a very convenient way of... More about Synchronize files on schedule...

• System Backup
• A system backup is a backup of all system files, which allows restoring the operating system to a working state after a crash. Usually only special... More about System Backup...

• SCSI (Small Computer System Interface)
• SCSI (Small Computer System Interface) , is a set of standards for physically connecting and transferring data between computers and peripheral... More about SCSI (Small Computer System Interface)...

• Span Backup to CDs
• To span backup to CD means to split the backup data to multiple CDs, if a backup is too large to store on a single disc. This backup will be called a... More about Span Backup to CDs...

• Span Backup to DVDs
• To span backup to DVD means to split the backup data to multiple DVDs, if a backup is too large to store on a single disc. This backup will be called... More about Span Backup to DVDs...

• SyncML
• SyncML is an open standard for information synchronization. It stands for Synchronization Markup Language. SyncML was developed by OMA and is... More about SyncML...

• Save WWW Files
• Nowadays, almost anyone has a website. But what does one do if the FTP server crashes, some file gets deleted or changed and is not recoverable? How... More about Save WWW Files...

• Sync Computers
• There are a variety of reasons why you may encounter the challenge to synchronize multiple computers. Firstly, you may want to synchronize photos... More about Sync Computers...

• System backup
• Most people deal with data backups simply by copying valuable files to a separate folder on a different HDD, or by burning them to DVD discs. The... More about System backup...