Workstation Backup and Recovery Methods

Question 1

Full Back-up

Answer 1

Complete data sets.
First step for all backup types.
Fast restore time.
Start.
Time consuming.
Greatest storage accrual.
Excessive consumption.

Question 2

Incremental Back-up

Answer 2

Partial data sets.
Copies all data from last full or incremental backup.
Fastest backup times.
Least storage accrual.
Lowest bandwidth consumption.
Slowest restore time.
Most common.

Question 3

Differential Back-up

Answer 3

Gradually increasing data sets.
Middle ground approach.
Lower storage, time, and bandwidth consumption than full backups.

Question 4

Synthetic Back-up

Answer 4

-Creates complete data set by combining (synthesizing) sets with an original complete data set.
-Utilizes the incremental data types.
-Doesn’t require storing full backups twice.
-Offers benefits of incremental backup type.

Question 5

Backup testing, frequency, and rotation schemes

Answer 5

• On site versus off site.
• Grandfather-father-son (GFS)–Grandfather: A full backup of the data at the beginning of the year
  Father: A full backup of the data at the beginning of the month
  Son: A full backup and increments of the data once a week
• 3-2-1 backup rule–a data protection strategy that recommends keeping three copies of your data on two different devices, with one copy stored off-site