Cheat sheet: No way back
The 26 terms of this lesson, part by part, with the French word a team in France would use.
1. A backup nobody has restored is only a hope
- Backupsauvegarde
- a copy of a site's data kept in a safe place, to recover it after a loss or an error.
- Restorerestaurer
- to replace the current data with a backup, to recover lost data or to check that the backup works.
- Restore testtest de restauration
- putting a backup back on a copy of the site, to prove that everything returns and to measure how long it takes.
- Pluginplugin, extension
- an add-on, often made by another company, that gives a tool such as WordPress a new feature.
- Hostinghébergement
- the service that stores a site's files and sends them to visitors.
2. Kept apart from what it protects
- Hosting providerhébergeur
- the company that rents you the servers where a site is stored, such as OVH or Netlify.
- Data centrecentre de données, datacenter
- a building full of servers, where hosting providers keep their customers' sites and data.
- Ransomwarerançongiciel
- an attack that locks an organisation's data and asks for money to unlock it.
- Syncsynchronisation
- a service that keeps the same files on several devices, so that a change or a deletion on one reaches all of them.
- 3-2-1 rulerègle 3-2-1
- keep three copies of the data, on two kinds of storage, with one copy in another place.
- Backupsauvegarde
- a copy of a site's data kept in a safe place, to recover it after a loss or an error.
3. How far back, and how often
- Backup retentiondurée de rétention des sauvegardes
- how many days or months of backups are kept before the oldest ones are deleted.
- RPOPDMA, perte de données maximale admissible
- how much recent data an organisation can afford to lose, such as one day of orders, which sets how often to make a backup.
- Backupsauvegarde
- a copy of a site's data kept in a safe place, to recover it after a loss or an error.
- Restorerestaurer
- to replace the current data with a backup, to recover lost data or to check that the backup works.
- Ransomwarerançongiciel
- an attack that locks an organisation's data and asks for money to unlock it.
4. Every risky change needs a way back
- Backupsauvegarde
- a copy of a site's data kept in a safe place, to recover it after a loss or an error.
- Rollback planplan de retour arrière
- what the team will do to undo an update if it goes wrong, and how long it will take.
- Stagingpréproduction, recette
- a test copy of a site that works like the live site, where changes are tried before they go live.
- Smoke testtest de fumée, smoke test
- a quick check of a site's main paths right after an update, such as browsing, the basket and payment.
- Commitcommit
- a saved version of the project, with a short message that says what changed and why.
5. What to ask
- Restore testtest de restauration
- putting a backup back on a copy of the site, to prove that everything returns and to measure how long it takes.
- Backup retentiondurée de rétention des sauvegardes
- how many days or months of backups are kept before the oldest ones are deleted.
- RPOPDMA, perte de données maximale admissible
- how much recent data an organisation can afford to lose, such as one day of orders, which sets how often to make a backup.
- 3-2-1 rulerègle 3-2-1
- keep three copies of the data, on two kinds of storage, with one copy in another place.
- Rollback planplan de retour arrière
- what the team will do to undo an update if it goes wrong, and how long it will take.
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