Glossary

# RDB

Stands for Redis Database Backup.

A file.

A dump of all user data stored in an internal, compressed serialization format at a particular timestamp which is used for point-in-time recovery (recovery from a timestamp).

Snapshot style persistence format

# AOF

Stands for Append Only File.

A persistence technique in which an RDB file is generated once, and all the data is appended to it as it comes.

Change-log style persistent format.

By default Redis saves snapshots of the dataset on disk, in a binary file called dump.rdb.

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