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Difficulty: MediumBusiness Continuity and Disaster Recovery

An enterprise telemetry cluster suffers a database volume corruption on Friday at 10:00 AM. The disaster recovery strategy specifies a full system backup executed every Sunday at midnight, supplemented by daily differential backups executed every night at 23:00 from Monday through Thursday. Which TWO of the following recovery steps must be performed to restore the database to its latest possible state prior to the failure while minimizing operational restore steps? (Select TWO.)

  1. Restore the full system backup image from Sunday midnight.Answer
  2. Restore the differential backup created on Thursday at 23:00.Answer
  3. C
    Restore each daily backup file sequentially from Monday night through Thursday night.
  4. D
    Restore the Monday differential backup prior to applying the Thursday differential backup.
  5. E
    Apply the Thursday differential backup directly to the bare-metal host without initializing the base image.

Answer

Restoring the full system backup image from Sunday midnight and restoring the differential backup created on Thursday at 23:00.
Differential backups record all data modified since the last full baseline backup. Therefore, restoring a system utilizing a differential strategy requires exactly two files: the baseline full backup (Sunday) and the most recent differential backup (Thursday at 23:00).

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Identify the backup baseline requirement
Determine that the full backup from Sunday midnight must be restored first to establish the baseline system state.
Differential backups only store modifications and require a full base image to build upon.
2
Analyze differential backup mechanics
Identify that Thursday night's differential backup holds all changes made between Sunday midnight and Thursday 23:00.
Differential backups record all data changed since the last full backup, making intermediate daily differential backups unnecessary.
3
Select the minimal optimal restore set
Select the Sunday full backup and the Thursday differential backup.
Combining the baseline full backup with the latest differential backup achieves full recovery with only two restore operations.

Key Concept

Differential Backup Restoration Strategy
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