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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
backup The result of an object consolidation operation, where a restore
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
Tape (Oracle specific term) An Oracle interface that handles the
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
volume/disk/
partition A volume/disk/partition containing operating system files.
Microsoft terminology defines the system volume/disk/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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