A quick reference to the terms you will see across Backvera.
- Snapshot – a complete, restorable point-in-time copy of your site.
- Full backup – a snapshot that captures everything; your first backup is always full.
- Incremental backup – a snapshot that stores only what changed since the last one.
- Realtime – capturing changes as they happen, on the Scale plan.
- Baseline – a periodic full snapshot that realtime deltas build on.
- Retention – how long snapshots are kept before automatic pruning.
- Restore – putting a snapshot back onto the same site.
- Clone – copying a snapshot to a different destination.
- Staging – a disposable copy of a site for safe testing.
- Push-to-live – promoting a staging site over production.
- Connection key – the secret that pairs your site’s plugin with your account.
- Inventory – the WordPress version, theme, and plugins recorded with a snapshot.
- Export destination – storage you control where Backvera mirrors backups.
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