Data Protection & Disaster Recovery Strategies Flashcards
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Which Acronis Cyber Protect feature scans backup images for malware before restoration to prevent reinfecting systems during recovery?
Answer: Safe Recovery
Safe Recovery in Acronis scans backup images with an anti-malware engine before restoring them, ensuring a clean recovery point is used.
In a GFS (Grandfather-Father-Son) backup scheme, which backup generation is typically kept for the longest retention period?
Answer: Grandfather (monthly)
In GFS, the Grandfather (monthly) backups are retained the longest, providing a deep historical recovery point archive.
An Acronis administrator enables deduplication on a backup storage location. What is the primary benefit of this configuration?
Answer: Reduced storage consumption by eliminating redundant data blocks
Deduplication identifies and stores identical data blocks only once, significantly reducing the storage space required for multiple backups.
Which Acronis technology creates a single consolidated full backup from existing incremental backups without requiring a new full backup read from the source machine?
Answer: Synthetic full backup
Synthetic full backups are assembled on the storage side by merging existing incremental backups into a full, eliminating the need to re-read source data.
What is the role of a 'failback' operation in Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud disaster recovery?
Answer: Returning workloads from the DR cloud environment back to the original on-premises infrastructure
Failback is the process of migrating workloads back to the original production environment after the disaster has been resolved and the primary site is restored.
Which Acronis Cyber Protect protection plan option ensures that a backup is taken immediately if a scheduled backup was missed because the machine was powered off?
Answer: Start conditions — missed scheduled backup
The 'missed scheduled backup' start condition triggers a backup as soon as the machine comes online after a scheduled window was missed.
In Acronis, what does 'backup validation' verify?
Answer: That the backup data is not corrupted and can be successfully used for recovery
Backup validation checks the integrity of backup data by verifying checksums, confirming the archive is intact and recoverable.