HP B6960-90078 Volume mountpoint Windows specific term, VxVM Veritas Volume Manager, Wake Onlan

Glossary

volume mountpoint (Windows specific term)

An empty directory on a volume that can be used to mount another volume. The volume mount point acts as a gateway to the target volume. Provided that the volume is mounted, users and applications can refer to the data on the mounted volume by the full (merged) filesystem path as if both volumes are one integral part.

Volume Shadow Copy service

See Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy service.

VPO

See OVO.

VSS

See Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy service.

VxFS

Veritas Journal Filesystem.

VxVM (Veritas Volume Manager)

A Veritas Volume Manager is a system for managing disk space on Solaris platforms. A VxVM system consists of an arbitrary group of one or more physical volumes organized into logical disk groups.

Wake ONLAN

Remote power-up support for systems running in power-save mode from some other system on the same LAN.

Web reporting

The Data Protector functionality that allows you to view reports on backup status and Data Protector configuration using the Web interface.

Windows CONFIGURATION backup

Data Protector allows you to back up Windows CONFIGURATION, including Windows Registry, user profiles, Event Logs, and WINS and DHCP server data (if configured on a system) in one step.

Windows Registry

A database repository about a computer's configuration.

WINS server A system running Windows Internet Name Service software that resolves Windows networking computer names to IP addresses. Data Protector can back up WINS server data as part of the Windows configuration.

writer

(MS VSS specific term)

A process that initiates change of data on the original volume. Writers are typically applications or system services

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