What is backing storage?

Answer by  EnergyRat (39)

Backing Storage is the files that are stored in the E drive of most computers. These files are intended to help restore your computer and programs to what they previously were befor the virus or other natural disaster occured. These files should be a manditory requirment for all computers, but it isnt.

Answer by  nickl2000 (540)

Backup storage is a separate piece of hardware that stores your important files in a different place than your hard drive. On personal computers it is often an external hard drive

Answer by  Phil28 (379)

A computer storage device whose capacity is larger, but whose access time is slower, than that of the computer's main storage or immediate access storage; usually slower than main storage. Also known as bulk storage. Backup tapes would be a classic example. While a harddrive takes milliseconds to reach any file it can take a tape minutes to do so.

Answer by  BrokenWits (382)

This is usually a separate storage system from the computer. It usually has a larger capacity than the main systems storage, but generally slower.