computer backup

1. 1.

   (computer science) a copy of a file or directory on a separate storage device

   “he made a backup in case the original was accidentally damaged or erased”

   Synonymsbackup

   Broaderduplicate

   computer science

Questions about computer backup

What does computer backup mean?

computer backup means "(computer science) a copy of a file or directory on a separate storage device".

What is another word for computer backup?

Close synonyms include backup. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is computer backup a common word?

computer backup is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.