A technician notices that the weekly backup is taking too long to complete. The daily backups are incremental. Which of the following would most likely resolve the issue?

The correct answer is D. Running synthetic full weekly backups. Synthetic full backups consolidate the most recent full backup and subsequent incremental backups into a new full backup on the backup storage, without repeatedly reading all data from the production systems. This approach significantly reduces the time impact on the network…

Submitted by asante_acc· Mar 30, 2026Hardware

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Options

AChanging the backup window
BPerforming incremental weekly backups
CIncreasing the backup storage
DRunning synthetic full weekly backups

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A
10% (5)
B
4% (2)
C
17% (9)
D
69% (36)

Explanation

Synthetic full backups consolidate the most recent full backup and subsequent incremental backups into a new full backup on the backup storage, without repeatedly reading all data from the production systems. This approach significantly reduces the time impact on the network and source systems during the weekly backup window while still providing a full backup set for

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