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📖What it means
A copy kept so that losing the original is survivable. What matters is not that a backup EXISTS but that it is fresh and restorable — an old or unreadable copy is a false sense of safety, which is worse than none.
⚖️What it is NOT
The neighbours this word is most often confused with, and the line between them.
Not: Canonical copy
A backup is insurance; the canonical copy is the one everything reads.
Not: Snapshot
A snapshot is a point-in-time image; a backup is a copy kept somewhere else on purpose.
🗣️Also called
copysafety copy