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authorLars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi>2014-01-31 16:00:31 +0000
committerLars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi>2014-01-31 16:00:31 +0000
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Start a glossary in the concepts chapter
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@@ -6,3 +6,10 @@ It discusses why you should back up, various concepts around backups,
what kinds of things you should think about when setting up backups
and what to do in the long term (verification, etc). It also discusses
some assumptions Obnam makes and some constraints it imposes.
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+Glossary
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+* **backup repository**: the location where are backups are stored
+* **live data**: all the data you have
+* **precious data**: all the data you care about; cf. live data