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user rights. Users have the access rights of the user group to
which they belong.
vaulting media The process of storing media to a safe and remote place. The
media are brought back to the data center when they are
needed for restore or are ready for reuse in subsequent backups.
The vaulting procedure depends on your company's backup
strategy and policies for data protection/reliability.
verify A function that lets you check whether the Data Protector data
on a specified medium is readable. Additionally, consistency
within each block can be checked if the backup was performed
with the cyclic redundancy check (CRC) option ON.
Virtual Controller
Software (VCS)
(HP StorageWorks EVA specific term) The firmware that manages
all aspects of storage system operation, including communication
with Command View EVA through the HSV controllers.
See also Command View (CV) EVA.
Virtual Device
Interface
(Microsoft SQL Server specific term) This is a SQL Server
programming interface that allows fast backup and restore of
large databases.
virtual disk (HP StorageWorks EVA specific term) A unit of storage allocated
from an HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array storage pool.
Virtual disks are the entities that are replicated using the HP
StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array snapshot functionality.
See also source volume and target volume.
virtual full backup An efficient type of synthetic backup where data is consolidated
using pointers instead of being copied. It is performed if all the
backups (the full backup, incremental backups, and the resulting
virtual full backup) are written to a single file library that uses
distributed file medium format.
Virtual Library
System (VLS)
A disk-based data storage device hosting one or more virtual
tape libraries (VTLs).
virtual server A virtual machine in a cluster environment defined in a domain
by a network IP name and address. Its address is cached by
the cluster software and mapped to the cluster node that is
currently running the virtual server resources. This way all
requests for a particular virtual server are cached by a specific
cluster node.
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