VMCE Backup Job Configuration 4 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: A Veeam backup job is configured with GFS (Grandfather-Father-Son) retention. What do 'Father' restore points represent?
- Monthly full restore points
- Weekly full restore points (Correct answer)
- Daily restore points
- Yearly full restore points
Correct answer: Weekly full restore points
In GFS terminology, Father restore points are weekly fulls, Son restore points are daily, and Grandfather restore points are monthly.
Question 2: When configuring a backup job targeting a scale-out backup repository, which setting determines which extent receives new backup files?
- Performance tier placement policy (data locality or performance) (Correct answer)
- Backup proxy affinity setting
- Repository extents are selected alphabetically
- The extent with the most free space always wins
Correct answer: Performance tier placement policy (data locality or performance)
The SOBR placement policy (data locality or performance) controls how Veeam distributes backup files across extents.
Question 3: What is the purpose of the 'Health check' option in Veeam backup job settings?
- It verifies the integrity of the latest restore point by reading and CRC-checking backup data blocks (Correct answer)
- It performs a test restore of the VM to an isolated network
- It runs a VSS consistency check on the backup proxy
- It validates that the backup repository has sufficient free space
Correct answer: It verifies the integrity of the latest restore point by reading and CRC-checking backup data blocks
Health check reads backup data blocks and verifies their CRC checksums to detect silent data corruption in the backup chain.
Question 4: Which backup job setting allows Veeam to automatically retry failed VM processing within the same job run?
- Retry failed items processing with a configurable number of attempts (Correct answer)
- Re-scan VM inventory before retry
- Enable automatic failover to a secondary proxy
- Use backup from storage snapshots on failure
Correct answer: Retry failed items processing with a configurable number of attempts
The retry setting instructs Veeam to reattempt processing for VMs that failed during the job run, up to a specified number of times.
Question 5: A backup administrator wants to back up only changed blocks since the last backup using CBT (Changed Block Tracking). Which prerequisite must be met on VMware VMs?
- VM hardware version must be 7 or higher and CBT must be enabled on the VM (Correct answer)
- vSphere Replication must be licensed
- The backup proxy must be deployed as a virtual appliance (hotadd mode)
- vCenter Server must be version 6.5 or later
Correct answer: VM hardware version must be 7 or higher and CBT must be enabled on the VM
VMware CBT requires VM hardware version 7+ and the CBT flag to be enabled; Veeam enables it automatically on eligible VMs.
Question 6: When configuring email notifications for a backup job in Veeam, which notification level sends an email only when the job finishes with warnings or errors?
- Notify on warning or error only (Correct answer)
- Notify on error only
- Notify on success, warning, or error
- Suppress all notifications
Correct answer: Notify on warning or error only
'Notify on warning or error' reduces email noise by skipping success notifications while still alerting on any non-success outcome.
Question 7: What is the function of the 'Swap files exclusion' option in Veeam backup job guest processing settings?
- It excludes Windows page files and hibernation files from the backup to reduce backup size (Correct answer)
- It prevents backup of NFS-mounted swap volumes
- It disables VSS snapshot of swap partitions on Linux VMs
- It forces crash-consistent backup for VMs using swap
Correct answer: It excludes Windows page files and hibernation files from the backup to reduce backup size
Excluding swap and hibernation files removes large, non-critical OS files from the backup, significantly reducing backup size and transfer time.
VMCE Backup Job Configuration 4
A Veeam backup job is configured with GFS (Grandfather-Father-Son) retention.
What do 'Father' restore points represent?