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SK0-003 · Question #521

A company has a policy that states that all servers will be fully backed up on the weekend. Additionally, all changed items will be backed up each night. In the event of a server failure, the…

The correct answer is C. Differential. To enable a full recovery using two restore jobs after a full weekend backup and nightly backups of changed items, a differential backup strategy should be employed nightly.

Security and disaster recovery

Question

A company has a policy that states that all servers will be fully backed up on the weekend. Additionally, all changed items will be backed up each night. In the event of a server failure, the administrator wants to be able to fully recover the system using two restore jobs. Which of the following backup levels should be used nightly?

Options

  • AIncremental
  • BNormal
  • CDifferential
  • DFull

How the community answered

(16 responses)
  • A
    6% (1)
  • B
    6% (1)
  • C
    81% (13)
  • D
    6% (1)

Why each option

To enable a full recovery using two restore jobs after a full weekend backup and nightly backups of changed items, a differential backup strategy should be employed nightly.

AIncremental

An incremental backup copies data changed since the last full or incremental backup, requiring the last full backup and all subsequent incremental backups for a full restore, which is more than two restore jobs.

BNormal

A normal backup, also known as a full backup, copies all selected files regardless of change and marks them as backed up, which would be inefficient and violate the 'changed items' policy for nightly backups.

CDifferentialCorrect

A differential backup copies all data that has changed since the last full backup. This strategy allows restoration using only the most recent full backup and the latest differential backup, fulfilling the requirement of two restore jobs.

DFull

A full backup copies all selected files and marks them as backed up; performing this nightly is inefficient and not aligned with the requirement to only back up 'changed items'.

Concept tested: Backup types and restore strategies

Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-server-backup/what-is-windows-server-backup

Topics

#Backup types#Data recovery#Differential backup

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