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Appendix G
Type
FQDN
Machine Name
Domain Name
Domain
full backup This is probably the most confusing term that relates to the subject
of backups. It often does not mean “comprehensive.” A “full” backup does
not necessarily mean that it includes every file on a whole system. “Full”
in those cases means “including all files in a given data set without regard
to previous backups.” In other words, it means “not incremental” and not
“differential.”
It is better to use the phrase “level zero” to make this distinction.
GNU GNU’s Not Unix, a recursive acronym. This is the name of a project started
by Richard M. Stallman, and is the mission of the FSF (Free Software Foundation), which he founded.
The purpose of the GNU project is to produce a “free” operating system
and suite of applications, utilities, and programming tools that are nonproprietary and unencumbered. Some might say they are encumbered by
the GPL (see GPL for more information).
When Linus Torvalds created and released his version version of Linux, it
was no accident that there was a large body of freely available utilities, and
programming tools that could be incorporated into Linux distributions- it
benefitted from the ongoing and as yet incomplete GNU project’s interim
development.
GPL To protect the GNU project software from being appropriated for proprietary use by hardware vendors, the Free Software Foundation released their
software under the GPL or General Public License.
hard link An entry in a directory that contains a pointer directly the the inode
bearing the file’s meta-data. All non-symlink directory entries are “ hard
links.”
host A computer system attached to a network.
host key A key the host will store locally and used for authentication when a user
key, stored on the users system, is passed to it. If both keys are valid then
both the host and user.
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