backup medium

In these cases, both the original and the backup medium are likely to be lost.

The drive is used as a backup medium.

Although the drives will not be cheap, the disks are inexpensive and interesting as a backup medium.

Even if the backup medium does not become obsolete, its durability is not guaranteed.

An earlier trial of a tape drive, once the favored backup medium, was so tedious I abandoned it.

That was my backup medium.

This technique can use substantially less storage space on the backup medium, but requires a high level of sophistication to reconstruct files in a restore situation.

But "for those who are prudent about the way they approach life," Mr. Porter said, diskettes are indeed the most popular backup medium.

The drive is used as a backup medium: at the close of business each night, the drive is inserted, and a database backup is saved to the drive.

That's why external hard drives have emerged as the backup medium of choice: their current low price, high speed and high capacity pairs them neatly with a computer's internal hard drive.

The most common backup mediums are a 5.25-inch floppy disk or a 3.5-inch diskette, which unlike the hard disk can be removed from the machine and stored in a safe place.

Impulse can create archives of purchased software to be stored on a backup medium, allowing users to revert to an older version if the latest version is not up to expectations.

First, they allow data integrity to be verified without reference to the original file: if the file as stored on the backup medium has the same checksum as the saved value, then it is very probably correct.

DEC invented Digital Linear Tape (DLT), formerly known as CompacTape, which began as a compact backup medium for MicroVAX systems, and later grew to capacities of 800 gigabytes.

The longevity of the ability to read from a DVD+R or DVD-R largely depends on manufacturing quality, ranging from two to 15 years, and is considered an unreliable backup medium unless great care is taken for storage conditions and handling.