What do the abbreviations AOF and RDB mean in Redis?

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I read the Redis Persistence documentation here - https://redis.io/topics/persistence - and I wonder what the acronyms AOF and RDB mean. Thank you :)

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Simon suh Jul 11 '17 at 17:03

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Tague griffith · Accepted Answer · 2017-07-11T17:08:16+0000

AOF stands for Add File Only. This is a consistent change log style format.

RDB is for the Redis database file. This is a format for saving a snapshot style.