What type of backup is used to protect the metadata of the PowerProtect Data Manager?

Question

Options

• ADisaster Recovery
• BBare Metal Recovery
• CCatalogue Recovery
• DBootstrap Recovery

• A
  88% (35)
• B
  3% (1)
• C
  8% (3)
• D
  3% (1)

Explanation

Disaster Recovery (DR) backup is the mechanism PowerProtect Data Manager uses to protect its own metadata - including configuration data, protection policies, asset information, and catalog data. If the PPDM server itself fails, the DR backup is what allows you to restore the manager back to a known good state, preserving all its internal records.

Why the distractors are wrong:

• B. Bare Metal Recovery is a general technique for restoring an entire system (OS + apps + data) to new hardware - it's not a PPDM-specific metadata protection feature.
• C. Catalogue Recovery is a plausible-sounding distractor, but PPDM does not use this as a named backup type; catalog data is included in the DR backup, not protected by a separate catalog recovery type.
• D. Bootstrap Recovery is the analogous feature in Veritas NetBackup, used to recover that product's catalog/database - don't confuse the two products' terminology.

Memory tip: Think of it this way - a Disaster Recovery backup protects PPDM itself from disaster, just as PPDM protects your workloads from disaster. DR at every level: the tool and the data it manages.

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