The process or product of preserving data for the purpose of recovery from a data loss event.
Related applications/technologies:
- Time Machine (macOS backup software) time-machine, backing up all data
- SuperDuper! (third-party backup software) superduper, cloning an entire disk
- iCloud Backup (iOS cloud backup), part of icloud, backing up app data, settings, and other data depending on selected options (e.g. photos only if iCloud Photo Library is not separately enabled)
