Universal Containers wants to back up all of the data and attachments in its Salesforce org once month. Which approach should a developer use to meet this requirement?

Question

Options

• AUse the Data Loader command line.
• BCreate a Schedulable Apex class.
• CSchedule a report.
• DDefine a Data Export scheduled job.

• A
  4% (2)
• B
  2% (1)
• C
  7% (4)
• D
  87% (48)

Explanation

Salesforce provides a native built-in feature called Data Export (Setup > Data Management > Data Export) that allows administrators or developers to schedule automatic exports of all org data and file attachments on a weekly or monthly basis. The exported files are delivered as a ZIP archive of CSV files plus attachment blobs. This is the most direct and low-effort solution for a monthly full-org backup. Option A (Data Loader command line) could theoretically be scripted, but it requires external scheduling infrastructure, manual object-by-object configuration, and does not natively handle attachments as cleanly. Option B (Schedulable Apex) would require writing, maintaining, and governing custom code, which is far more complex than a built-in setting. Option C (schedule a report) exports only report data - it cannot export attachments and does not cover all org objects.

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