Definition of anthropology. 1  1 : the science of human beings; especially : the study of human beings and their ancestors through time and space and in relation to physical character, environmental and social relations, and culture. 2  2 : theology dealing with the origin, nature, and destiny of human beings.
This type of backup is often described as a âbare metal backupâ because it backs up physical disks at the volume level. In other words, a true disk image is an exact copy of an entire physical disk or disk partition.
1. FAT. The traditional DOS filesystem types are FAT12 and FAT16. Here FAT stands for File Allocation Table: the disk is divided into clusters, the unit used by the file allocation, and the FAT describes which clusters are used by which files.