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