salvestumise

Salvestumine, including the inflected form salvestumise, is the Estonian term for the act or process of saving or recording information. In computing it commonly refers to saving data to durable storage or writing records to a database, and in media contexts it can mean recording audio or video. The word derives from the verb salvestama, meaning to save, store, or record.

Usage and contexts: In software, salvestumine is tied to actions such as “salvesta” (save) or “salvesta nagu” (save as). The noun salvestumine appears in manuals and technical writing to denote the act itself, e.g., “andmete salvestumise protsess” (the data-saving process). In media production, it also describes capturing material on a storage medium.

Methods and practices: Data salvestumine relies on storage media (hard drives, SSDs, cloud storage) and software components that ensure persistence. Common approaches include autosave, manual saving, backups, versioning, and data integrity checks such as checksums. In archival contexts, salvestumine emphasizes metadata, format stability, and plans for migration to avoid obsolescence.

See also: backup, data persistence, recording, file formats, and data integrity.