Glossary - To make sense of the alphabet soup
Below is a glossary of acronyms and terms used in this forum
| AD | Active Directory | |
| ADAMM | Advanced Device And Media Management | |
| ADRA | Active Directory Recovery Agent | |
| AES | Advanced Encryption Standard | |
| AFE | Automatic File Exclusion | |
| AMHV | Agent for Microsoft Hyper-V | |
| AOF | Advanced Opened File | BE 2012 and above |
| AOFO | Advanced Opened File Option | Up to BE 2010 |
| AP | Append Period | |
| AVVI | Agent for VMWare Virtual Infrastructure | |
| B2D | Backup-to-Disk | |
| B2D2T | Backup-to-Disk and then to tape | |
| B2V | Backup-to-Virtual | BE 2012 and above |
| BE | Backup Exec | |
| BEMCMD | Backup Exec Commandline Applet | Up to BE 2010 |
| BEMCLI | Backup Exec Management Command Line Interface | BE 2012 and above |
| BESA | Backup Exec Service Account | |
| BESR | Backup Exec System Recovery | |
| CAS | Client Access Server (used in relation with Exchange) | |
| CAS | Central Admin Server | |
| CASO | Central Admin Server Option | |
| CCR | Cluster Continuous Replication (for Exchange) | |
| CDO | Collaboration Data Ojects | |
| CIFS | Common Internet File System | |
| CPS | Continuous Protection Server | Up to BE 2010 |
| CSV | Cluster Shared Volume | |
| DAG | Database Availability Group | |
| DAOS | Domino Attachment and Object Storage | |
| DC | Domain Controller | |
| DDI | Device Driver Installer | |
| dedup | deduplication | |
| DFS | Distributed File System | |
| DLO | Desktop & Laptop Option | |
| DLM | Data Life-cycle Management | BE 2012 and above |
| DR | Disaster Recovery | |
| DSF | DeDuplication Storage Folder | |
| ELS | Enterprise Licensing System | BE 2012 and above |
| EMT | Exchange Management Tool | |
| EV | Enterprise Vault | |
| FC | Fibre Channel | |
| GA | General Availability | |
| GAL | Global Address List | |
| GRT | Granular Recovery Technology | |
| HCL | Hardware Compatibility List | |
| IDR | Intelligent Disaster Recovery | Up to BE 2010 |
| IPL | In-Product Licensing | BE 2012 and above |
| LCR | Local Continuous Replication (for Exchange) | |
| LEO | Library Expansion Option | |
| LU | LiveUpdate | |
| LUN | logical unit number | |
| MAPI | Messaging API | |
| MBES | Managed Backup Exec Server | BE 2012 and above |
| media server | machine where BE is loaded | |
| MITM | man-in-the-middle (attack) | |
| MMS | Managed Media Server | Up to BE 2010 |
| MOSS | Microsoft Office SharePoint Server | |
| NAS | Network-attached Storage | |
| NBU | NetBackup | |
| NDMP | Network Data Management Protocol | |
| NFR | Not For Resale | |
| NSF or .nsf | Lotus Domino mail database file | |
| OP | original post - first post in the discussion | |
| OPL | Overwrite Protection Level | |
| OPP | Overwrite Protection Period | |
| OST | Open Storage Technology | |
| P2V | Physical-to-Virtual | |
| RALUS | Remote Agent for Linux and Unix System | |
| RAMS | Remote Agent for Macintosh Systems | |
| RAWS | Remote Agent for Windows System | |
| RDM | Raw Disk Mapping | |
| remote server | machine that is backed up by BE | |
| RHEL | Red Hat Enterprise Linux | |
| RMALS | Remote Media Agent for Linux Servers | |
| RPO | Recovery Point Objective | |
| RSG | Recovery Storage Group | |
| RTO | Recovery Time Objective | |
| SAN | Storage Area Network | |
| SBE | Small Businness Edition | |
| SBS | Small Businness Server | |
| SCL | Software Compatibility List | |
| SDR | Simplified Disaster Recovery | BE 2012 and above |
| SEP | Symantec Endpoint Protectioni | |
| SLF | Symantec License File | BE 2012 and above |
| SP | service pack | |
| SSO | Shared Storage Option | |
| SSP | Simplified System Protection | BE 2012 and above |
| SSR | Symantec System Recovery | |
| UNC | Universal Naming Convention | |
| VCB | VMware Consolidated Backup | |
| VM | Virtual Machine | |
| VTL | Virtual Tape Library | |
| VSP | VERITAS Volume Snapshot Provider | |
| VSS | Volume Snapshot Service or Volume Shadow Copy Service | |
| WORM | Write Once, Read Many | |
| WSS | Windows SharePoint Services |
