Data Reduction & Deduplication Definitions

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    3-2-1 backup strategy explained: Is it effective?

    The 3-2-1 backup strategy is a time-tested data protection and recovery methodology for ensuring that data is protected adequately and up-to-date backup copies of the data are available when needed.

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    asynchronous replication

    Asynchronous replication is a store-and-forward approach to data backup and protection.

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    data deduplication hardware

    Data deduplication hardware is disk storage that eliminates redundant copies of data and retains one instance to be stored.

  • data minimization

    Data minimization aims to reduce the amount of collected data to only include necessary information for a specific purpose.

  • data reduction

    Data reduction lowers the amount of capacity required to store data.

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    What is image-based backup?

    Image-based backup creates a copy of an operating system (OS) and all the data associated with it, including the system state and application configurations.