A customer has indicated that bi-weekly full backups are taking too long to complete. Which of the following would be the BEST action if minimizing restore time is very important to the customer?

Synthetic full backups combine existing backup data without reading from production systems, but they still produce a full-sized backup image and do not reduce the time or storage consumed at the backup tier, leaving the core complaint unresolved.

An incremental backup captures only the data changed since the last backup, making it far smaller and faster to complete than a full backup and directly addressing the customer's complaint about backup duration. Because only one incremental exists between fulls in this schedule, the restore process requires just two backup sets - the full plus that single incremental - keeping recovery time short and satisfying the customer's priority of minimizing restore time.

A differential backup captures all changes since the last full, meaning it grows larger with each passing day and consumes more backup time than an incremental, while providing no restore-time advantage over option B in a two-backup-per-period schedule.

Starting full backups earlier shifts the backup window but does not reduce how long the backup takes or how much data is written, leaving both the backup duration problem and the restore time concern unaddressed.