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backup

Informatics A function that allows users to copy one or more files to a storage pool to protect against data loss. See Incremental backup, Mirroring, Selective backup. Cf Restore.
McGraw-Hill Concise Dictionary of Modern Medicine. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

backup

Anything that serves to replace a function or system that fails.
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Even so, according to a recent study conducted by The Taneja Group, many enterprise customers do not calculate their true data protection costs or their actual success rate in performing backup and restores.
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