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Glossary definition(s) for: archive
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v., To save digital data, documents, and records, typically those that are not current, offline.
[ Computer and Information Sciences - Dictionary of Computing ]
Dictionary of Computing. 4th ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Dictionary definition(s) for: archive
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v., To save digital data, documents, and records, typically those that are not current, offline.
[ Computer and Information Sciences - Dictionary of Computing ]
Dictionary of Computing. 4th ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
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n., A repository for information that the user wishes to retain, but without requiring immediate access. (The word is also used as a verb: to transfer into the archive system.) There are three quite different activities that must be distinguished:
(a) the routine taking of backup copies, initiated by the system manager, to protect users and system managers against corruption of stored information;
(b) the autonomous transferring of information from a higher-performance to a lower-performance storage system, initiated by the operating system, to achieve economies in the total cost to the system manager of information storage;
(c) the voluntary transferring of a file between normal file storage and archive storage, initiated by the user, to achieve economies in the total costs to the user of information storage.
[ Computer and Information Sciences - A Dictionary of Computing ]
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n., A single file containing one or (usually) more separate files plus information to allow them to be extracted (separated) by a suitable program.
[ Computer and Information Sciences - Free Online Dictionary of Computing (FOLDOC) ]
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v., To copy data onto a different disk or tape for backup. Archived files are often compressed to maximize storage media.
[ Computer and Information Sciences - The Computer Glossary: The Complete Illustrated Dictionary ]
Freedman, Alan. The Computer Glossary: The Complete Illustrated Dictionary. 8th ed. New York: American Management Association, 1998.
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v., To save data onto the disk.
[ Computer and Information Sciences - The Computer Glossary: The Complete Illustrated Dictionary ]
Freedman, Alan. The Computer Glossary: The Complete Illustrated Dictionary. 8th ed. New York: American Management Association, 1998.
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v., To transfer files to slower, cheaper media (usually magnetic tape) to free the hard disk space they occupied. This is now normally done for long-term storage but in the 1960s, when disk was much more expensive, files were often shuffled regularly between disk and tape.
[ Computer and Information Sciences - Free Online Dictionary of Computing (FOLDOC) ]
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v., To transfer records from the individual or office of creation to a repository authorized to appraise, preserve, and provide access to those records.
[ Archives - A Glossary of Archival and Records Terminology (The Society of American Archivists) ]
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