SysAdmin: Backups

This type of backup gets only files that have changed since the last backup; regardless of the type of backup.

• Differential

• Incremental

• Full

• System State

When you are backing up "to the cloud", enterprise SysAdmins are more likely to call it this.

• to the cloud; trick question

• beyond RAID

• Off Prem

• None of these

This was the previous gold standard for backup media and it still used today by lots of organizations; for long term storage.

• CDs

• DVDs

• Platter Based Drives

• Magnetic Tape

What is the 2 of the 3,2,1 rule of backup?

• 2 copies of any important file

• 2 different types of storage media

• 2 copies stored offsite

• none of these

Which of the following is a good reason that RAID does not work for backup?

• Corruption; you end up with 2 corrupt copies

• RAID sets break and can be unrecoverable

• Downtime to recover raid sets

• All of these are good reasons

If you use 7Zip to backup your files into one file that is then shrunk, you are using this technology.

• Compression

• Compaction

• Consumption

• Consummation

This technology, pioneered by Microsoft, creates point-in-time snapshots from which backups can be made.

• Deduplication

• MSFT Encryption

• Mitochondria

• Shadow Copies

This type of backup can be restored to another machine with the same or very similar hardware makeup to get a fully operational system going.

• Bare Metal

• Pure Steel

• Complete Adamantium

• Core Backup

This is the 1 of the 3,2,1 of backup

• 1 Copy should be zipped

• 1 Copy should be stored offsite

• 1 Copy should be on floppy

• ! Copy should be world writeable

Much averse to its name, this technology can offer a high speed backbone over both copper and it's namesake.

• Plenum Wire

• Fiber Optics

• Gold Standard

• Silver Stratum