Data Reduction & Deduplication Definitions
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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.
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data reduction
Data reduction lowers the amount of capacity required to store data.
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image-based backup
Image-based backup creates a copy of an operating system and all the data associated with it, including the system state and application configurations.
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inline deduplication
Inline deduplication is the removal of redundancies from data before or as it is being written to a backup device.