A backup administrator has defined a backup policy where full backups are scheduled at 8 PM every Saturday and differential backups for the rest of the week at same time. A data loss happened on…

The correct answer is A. 2. If the data loss occurred on Friday, restoration process needs a full backup and the last differential backup that happened on a day before Friday. In case of an incremental backup, all the backup copies that occurred before Friday would be needed including the full backup copy…

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A backup administrator has defined a backup policy where full backups are scheduled at 8 PM every Saturday and differential backups for the rest of the week at same time. A data loss happened on Friday at 11 AM. How many backup copies are required to restore the requested files?

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A
85% (40)
B
4% (2)
C
9% (4)
D
2% (1)

Explanation

If the data loss occurred on Friday, restoration process needs a full backup and the last differential backup that happened on a day before Friday. In case of an incremental backup, all the backup copies that occurred before Friday would be needed including the full backup copy that occurred on Saturday.

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