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Joe, a backup administrator, wants to implement a solution that will reduce the restoration time of physical servers. Which of the following is the BEST method for
Joe to use?

  • A. Differential
  • B. Incremental
  • C. Full
  • D. Snapshots
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Suggested Answer: C 🗳️

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Elb
Highly Voted 5 years, 3 months ago
C. Keyword is "restoration" A full backup takes longer and requires more space than other types of backups but the process of restoring lost data from backup is much faster.
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Jarvis1
Highly Voted 4 years, 8 months ago
A full backup is the easiest and quickest to restore. Gibson, Darril. CompTIA Security+ Get Certified Get Ahead: SY0-501 Study Guide (p. 402). Kindle Edition.
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fonka
Most Recent 3 years, 10 months ago
Answebis Full back up why? Full back up require much time and space but restore data fast Incremental is fastest to take back up because it only back up new updates ,but slow in restoration Differential back up require more space and time and it is the extremely slow to restore a bit of information
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troxel
4 years ago
The key phrase is "physical server"... which typically excludes a snapshot.
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SH_
3 years, 11 months ago
Correct.
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Funkydave
4 years, 1 month ago
C. Because in the event of a complete system failure you need to restore the last FULL backup first, then restore either the differential or incremental.
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Cliff01
4 years, 1 month ago
Answer=D. According to Kaplan Learn https://www.kaplanlearn.com/education/qbank/view/45318881?testId=163736035. "If a system crashed, restoring a Snapshot would be the fastest way to restore the system."
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Figekioki
3 years, 10 months ago
You can't do a snapshot of a physical server lol
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Dion79
4 years, 2 months ago
If Full is not on the exam per one test taker then Differential might be the answer. https://iosafe.com/data-protection-topics/3-types-of-backup/
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Voltron8477
4 years, 3 months ago
Answer is C.
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Paulie_D
4 years, 4 months ago
While I agree with the concensus, that a full backup should be the correct answer, it is not on the actual exam... sadly. Exam answer is A. Differential. Just took the exam.
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Hash___
4 years, 4 months ago
What do you mean it's not in the exam? In the exame there is no "Full backup" option? If so, yeah the second best answer is A.
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MagicianRecon
4 years, 10 months ago
Restoring physical servers. Using either a differential or incremental would still require a full backup first which is obviolsy more time consuming than just full restore.
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venus20
4 years, 11 months ago
If a failure requires restoring data, they want to minimize the amount of time needed to restore the data. A full/ differential is the best choice in this situation because it only requires the restoration of two backups, the full and the most recent differential backup. In contrast, a full/incremental can require the restoration of several different backups, depending on when the failure occurs.
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venus20
4 years, 11 months ago
Full backup has many disadvantages like time and resource. So full is eliminated since the questions asks for BEST options. The BEST among the remaining ones are differential for restoring since its full+1 diff backup restore.
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adad2342
4 years, 10 months ago
The question only asks about time, not resources. Full takes less time.
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Mesrop
5 years, 3 months ago
I went with A since differential backup takes shorter time to restore system - two restores: full backup and diff. But the question doesn't mention about a backup. So "C" is correct answer.
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MelvinJohn
5 years, 1 month ago
The only way to restore ALL of the system data via a full backup would be to perform a full backup daily. Very costly in time and resources. Differentials reduce cost and resources and provide reasonably fast restores.
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choboanon
4 years, 9 months ago
Makes no mention this is something that is done daily. In this one instance of the question a full backup would take less time than other options.
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choboanon
4 years, 9 months ago
Also it only mentions wanting to reduce RESTORATION TIME, makes no mention that it cares about how much take it would take to create backups even if youw ere doing it daily. Key word is restoration time
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Ravis
5 years, 5 months ago
sorry B?
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carnut85
5 years, 4 months ago
Incremental backups are convenient because they take up less space but take longer to restore. Full would be a fast restore as all the data is already there. I could see a case for snapshot and differential too.
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Ravis
5 years, 5 months ago
why not C?
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