HP Application Recovery Manager software A.06.10 Concepts guide (March 2008)

shared disks A Windows disk on another system that has been made
available to other users on the network.
SMBF The Session Messages Binary Files (SMBF) part of the IDB stores
session messages generated during backup and restore sessions.
One binary file is created per session. The files are grouped by
year and month.
snapshot (HP StorageWorks EVA specific term) A form of replica produced
using snapshot creation techniques. A range of snapshot types
is available, with different characteristics, depending on the
arrays/techniques used. Such replicas are dynamic and may
be either virtual copies, still reliant upon the contents of the
source volumes, or independent exact duplicates (clones),
depending on the snapshot type and the time since creation.
See also replica and snapshot creation.
snapshot backup
(HP StorageWorks
EVA specific term)
See ZDB to disk.
snapshot creation (HP StorageWorks EVA specific term) A replica creation
technique, in which copies of source volumes are created using
storage virtualization techniques. The replicas are considered
to be created at one particular point in time, without
pre-configuration, and are immediately available for use.
However background copying processes normally continue after
creation.
See also snapshot.
source volume (ZDB specific term) A storage volume containing data to be
replicated.
split mirror (HP StorageWorks Disk Array XP specific term) A replica created
using split mirror techniques. Such a replica provides an
independent, exact duplicate, or clone of the contents of the
source volumes.
See also replica and split mirror creation.
split mirror
creation
(HP StorageWorks Disk Array XP specific term) A replica
creation technique, in which a pre-configured set of target
volumes (a mirror) is kept synchronized with a set of source
volumes until the time at which a replica of the contents of the
source volumes is required. Then, the synchronization is stopped
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