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VMCE_V12 · Question #172

An organization has been backing up their workloads to a Windows 2016 server (REFS). After a competitor was hit by ransomware, the engineer decided to make all backups immutable to secure them. The…

The correct answer is D. Right-click on the Windows repository and select "Evacuate to", then select the new hardened. The "Evacuate" action will move all existing backup files (and their metadata) from the old ReFS repository to your new XFS-based hardened repo, preserving immutability and retention settings without re-running the jobs.

Backup Repository Configuration

Question

An organization has been backing up their workloads to a Windows 2016 server (REFS). After a competitor was hit by ransomware, the engineer decided to make all backups immutable to secure them. The engineer has built a new hardened repository with XFS as a standalone backup repository. Which action should the engineer take to migrate the backup files to the new repository?

Options

  • AUse Quick Migrate to move the backups to the new hardened repository.
  • BRight-click on each backup job and use the "Move" backup option to migrate them to the new
  • CEdit the backup job and change the target to the new backup repository.
  • DRight-click on the Windows repository and select "Evacuate to", then select the new hardened

How the community answered

(33 responses)
  • A
    12% (4)
  • B
    3% (1)
  • C
    6% (2)
  • D
    79% (26)

Explanation

The "Evacuate" action will move all existing backup files (and their metadata) from the old ReFS repository to your new XFS-based hardened repo, preserving immutability and retention settings without re-running the jobs.

Topics

#hardened repository#XFS#immutability#repository migration

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