Chapter 13


1:

Name four uses for backup technology.

A1:

Answer: Disaster protection, historical archiving, system migration, data sharing

2:

What is offline storage?

A2:

Answer: Storage that cannot be accessed without an administrator's making it available

3:

What does backup metadata do?

A3:

Answer: It keeps data about backup operations and tapes.

4:

What does tape rotation do?

A4:

Answer: It determines which tapes to use and when.

5:

Explain the difference between incremental and differential backups.

A5:

Answer: Incremental backups copy data that has changed since the last backup. Differential backups copy data that has changed since the last full backup.

6:

What is hot backup?

A6:

Answer: Hot backup operates while the application system is running.

7:

Name two advantages of backing up over the SAN.

A7:

Answer: Excellent performance and centralized backup management

8:

True or false: LAN-free backup requires backup data to move through the application servers being backed up.

A8:

Answer: True. An application server reads data from a disk LUNin the SAN, stores it temporarily in memory, and writes it to tape drives in the SAN.

9:

A data mover is used in what kind of SAN-based backup?

A9:

Answer: Serverless backup

10:

Why does disk capacity for backup scale and tape capacity not scale?

A10:

Answer: Disk can use RAIDand other virtualization techniques to create scalable capacity, whereas tape is limited to the capacity of a single cartridge.



Storage Networking Fundamentals(c) An Introduction to Storage Devices, Subsystems, Applications, Management, a[... ]stems
Storage Networking Fundamentals: An Introduction to Storage Devices, Subsystems, Applications, Management, and File Systems (Vol 1)
ISBN: 1587051621
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2006
Pages: 184
Authors: Marc Farley

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