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Glossary: Redis and Caching

AOF (append-only file)

Also written: AOF, appendonly, appendfsync everysec

A persistence method that logs every write to a file as it happens and replays it on restart. With `appendfsync everysec`, a crash loses at most about a second of writes.

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Related terms

PersistenceRDB (Redis Database file)