A network management server suffers a catastrophic storage failure on Thursday morning. The enterprise backup policy specifies a full backup performed every Sunday at 00:00 and incremental backups performed daily from Monday through Wednesday at 23:00. Arrange the following steps in the correct sequential order required to fully restore the system to its most recent state prior to the failure.
- 1Initialize and format the replacement storage volume on the target system.
- 2Restore the Sunday full backup volume.
- 3Restore the Monday daily incremental backup.
- 4Restore the Tuesday daily incremental backup.
- 5Restore the Wednesday daily incremental backup.
Answer
The correct sequence begins with preparing the replacement storage media, followed by restoring the Sunday full backup baseline, and subsequently restoring each daily incremental backup in strict chronological order: Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.
Restoring from an incremental backup scheme requires initializing target hardware, restoring the base full backup, and then applying every incremental backup taken since the full backup in chronological order. Because each incremental backup relies on all preceding backups since the last full backup, omitting or misordering any step prevents full recovery.
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Key Concept
Incremental Backup Restoration Process
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