Restore vs Reboot - What's the difference?
restore | reboot |
To reestablish, or bring back into existence.
To bring back to a previous condition or state.
* Bible, Mark iii. 5
* Prior
To give or bring back (that which has been lost or taken); to bring back to the owner; to replace.
* Bible, Genesis xx. 7
* Milton
* Dryden
To give in place of, or as restitution for.
* Bible, Exodus xxii. 1
(computing) To recover (data, etc.) from a backup.
(obsolete) To make good; to make amends for.
* Shakespeare
(computing) An instance of rebooting.
(narratology) The restarting of a series storyline that discards all previous continuity.
(computing) To cause a computer to execute its boot process, effectively resetting the computer and causing the operating system to reload, especially after a system or power failure
(narratology) To discard all previous continuity in a series and restart the series.
(video games) To restart a (computer or video game) from the beginning.
In computing terms the difference between restore and reboot
is that restore is to recover (data, etc.) from a backup while reboot is to cause a computer to execute its boot process, effectively resetting the computer and causing the operating system to reload, especially after a system or power failure.restore
English
Verb
(restor)- to restore harmony among those who are at variance
- He restored my lost faith in him by doing a good deed.
- and his hand was restored whole as the other
- our fortune restored after the severest afflictions
- Now therefore restore the man his wife.
- Loss of Eden, till one greater man / Restore us, and regain the blissful seat.
- The father banished virtue shall restore .
- He shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.
- There was a crash last night, and we're still restoring the file system.
- But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, / All losses are restored , and sorrows end.