OBDR capable

A device that can emulate a CD-ROM drive loaded with a

device

bootable disk and can thus be used as a backup or boot device

 

for disaster recovery purposes.

object

See backup object.

object

The process of merging a restore chain of a backup object,

consolidation

consisting of a full backup and at least one incremental backup,

 

into a new, consolidated version of this object. The process is

 

a part of the synthetic backup procedure. The result is a synthetic

 

full backup of the specified backup object.

object

A process that merges a restore chain of a backup object,

consolidation

consisting of a full backup and at least one incremental backup,

session

into a new, consolidated version of this object.

object copy

A copy of a specific object version that is created during an

 

object copy session or a backup session with object mirroring.

object copy session

A process that creates an additional copy of the backed up data

 

on a different media set. During an object copy session, the

 

selected backed up objects are copied from the source to the

 

target media.

object copying

The process of copying selected object versions to a specific

 

media set. You can select object versions from one or several

 

backup sessions to be copied.

object ID

(Windows specific term) The object IDs (OIDs) enable access

 

to NTFS 5 files no matter where in the system the files reside.

 

Data Protector treats the OIDs as alternate streams of the files.

object mirror

A copy of a backup object created using object mirroring.

 

Object mirrors are often referred to as object copies.

object mirroring

The process of writing the same data to several media sets

 

during a backup session. Data Protector enables you to mirror

 

all or some backup objects to one or more media sets.

offline backup

A backup during which an application database cannot be

 

used by the application.

 

• For simple backup methods (non ZDB), the database is

 

generally put into a quiescent state that allows use by the

 

backup system, but not the application, for the whole backup

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