synthetic backup | A backup solution that produces a synthetic full backup, an | |
| equivalent to a conventional full backup in terms of data, without | |
| putting stress on the production servers or the network. A | |
| synthetic full backup is created from a previous full backup and | |
| any number of incremental backups. | |
synthetic full | The result of an object consolidation operation, where a restore | |
backup | chain of a backup objects is merged into a new, synthetic full | |
| version of this object. A synthetic full backup is equivalent to a | |
| conventional full backup in terms of restore speed. | |
System Backup to | (Oracle specific term) An Oracle interface that handles the | |
Tape | actions required to load, label, and unload correct backup | |
| devices when Oracle issues a backup or restore request. | |
system databases | (Sybase specific term) The four system databases on a newly | |
| installed Sybase SQL Server are the: | |
| • | master database (master) |
| • | temporary database (tempdb) |
| • system procedure database (sybsystemprocs) | |
| • model database (model). | |
System State | (Windows specific term) The System State data comprises the | |
| Registry, COM+ Class Registration database, system startup | |
| files, and the Certificate Services database (if the server is a | |
| certificate server). If the server is a domain controller, Active | |
| Directory services and the SYSVOL directory are also contained | |
| in the System State data. If the server is running the Cluster | |
| service, the System State data also includes resource registry | |
| checkpoints and the quorum resource recovery log, which | |
| contains the most recent cluster database information. | |
system | A volume/disk/partition containing operating system files. | |
volume/disk/ | Microsoft terminology defines the system volume/disk/partition | |
partition | as the volume/disk/partition containing files required for the | |
| initial step of the boot process. | |
SysVol | (Windows specific term) A shared directory that stores the server | |
| copy of the domain’s public files, which are replicated among | |
| all domain controllers in the domain. | |
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