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BACKUP Flashcards

1
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What is a Backup?

A

Copy of data that is archived and can be used to restore corrupt or lost data due to hardware or system failure.

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Backups often distinguish between different types of data. Name the three types:

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  1. System State
  2. User Data
  3. Application Data
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What’s included in System State backup?

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Data includes all of the files required to boot and run the computer

Operating system files
Registry
Drivers
Configuration files.

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What’s included in User Data backup?

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All data files saved and modified by users or applications that users run. Eg: Word, music, pictures

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What’s included in Application Data backup?

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Files installed by an application and application configuration files. Executable files and any files needed by the application to run.

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6
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Why is the user data is the most important data for a company.

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Because user data changes constantly, back up the user data frequently and on a regular schedule.

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When does Application data change?

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Only following the installation of an application or following a configuration change.

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8
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Use the following tools to protect Windows 2000 and XP systems:

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Windows Backup (Ntbackup)

Automated System Recovery (ASR)

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9
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How do you execute Ntbackup?

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Run Ntbackup.exe or start Windows Backup from the Administrative Tools in the Control Panel.

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10
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Ntbackup is the backup utility included with which Operating Systems?

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Windows 2000/XP

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11
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With Windows Backup (Ntbackup) you choose the data you want to backup. What are the choices?

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System state data,
Entire volumes,
Selected folders or files

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Again, what is System state data?

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All files required to boot and run the computer (OS files, registry, drivers, configuration files)

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With Ntbackup where can backups be saved to?

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tape, network location, or a file on a hard disk

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Windows (Ntbackup) cannot backup to what?

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Recordable disc media (CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD-RW. To save media this way, backup to a file then copy the backup file to discs.

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15
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With Windows (Ntbackup) you can schedule backups to take place at regular times. (True or False)

A

True

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What is Automated System Recovery (ASR)?

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A simple way to backup and restore the OS.

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When would you use the ASR tool?

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To recover from a hardware failure or other errors that prevent the OS from loading.

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ASR is a tool for which Windows OS’s?

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2000/XP

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Which backup tool do you use on Windows 2000/XP to create an Automated System Recovery (ASR) backup?

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Automated Wizard in the Windows backup (Ntbackup)

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20
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Windows XP ASR is an extension to what?

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The conventional backup and restore.

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21
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The Automated System Recovery tool (ASR) backs up the System State data, but what does it not back up?

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User data

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The ASR backup does not backup User data, but it does backup, what?

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System state data

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23
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What is the feature, ASR referred to in Windows 2000?

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Emergency Repair Disk (ERD)

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24
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Which backup tools do you use to protect Windows Vista systems?

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Automatic Backups

Complete PC Backup and Restore

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25
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Automatic backups are currently used only for what?

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User data

26
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What does Automatic backups not backup?

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OS files or applications

27
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How do you select the data you want to backup using Automatic backup?

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Select by file type, i.e., documents, pictures, music Cannot selectively backup files or folders or drives.

28
Q

After using Automatic backup, you can add files to the backup. When you add files, what is backed up?

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Only the changes are added to the existing backup.

29
Q

If you do a full backup using Automatic backup, what is created?

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A new backup.

30
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What files can be restored from the Automatic Backup?

A

All files or selected files

31
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What is the Net Technology File System (NTFS) File System?

A

NTFS is the file system that superseded the FAT file system beginning with NT 3.1 and forward.

32
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You can only back up files that exist on which file system?

A

NTFS partition

33
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Where can you backup data to using the Automatic backup?

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Hard dis, CD-R, DVD-R, network drive

34
Q

Using the Automatic backup tool and are backing up to a hard disk, where must you back up the files to?

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A different disk than where the files are stored.

35
Q

What does the Automatic Backup utility in Windows 7, allow you to backup?

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Allows you to select individual folders and files, as well as include system files in the backup

36
Q

The Complete PC Backup and Restore replaces the _____/______ features of previous Windows versions.

A

ASR/ERD

37
Q

Complete PC Backup creates an _____-______ ________ of the ______ computer.

A

image-based

entire

38
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What does the Complete PC Backup and Restore backup?

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Everything on the system:

OS
Installed programs
drivers
user data files

39
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During a restore from the Complete PC Backup and Restore, what is restored?

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The entire system, you cannot select only a portion of the backup to restore.

40
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What does the System Restore utility do?

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Takes snapshots (called restore points) of your system.

41
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What is the purpose of the snapshot feature in the System Restore utility?

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It allows you to roll back your computer to a specific point-in-time configuration.

42
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What does the Restore points take snapshots of in the System Restore utility?

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System files
registry settings
program files
batch
script
executable files
43
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What does the Restore point tool not protect?

A

User data files

44
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What do Automatic Restore Points do?

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Automatically creates restore points in the background at regular intervals.

By default, once a day

Before configuration changes (installing applications, installing an unsigned driver)

45
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You can ________ create a restore point.

A

manually

46
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When you restore to a restore point, what is restored?

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Previous settings, so any changes that were made after the restore point was made are not restored.

47
Q

System Restore works only on which files system?

A

NTFS

48
Q

Where are System Restore files automatically save to?

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The same disk.

49
Q

System Restore uses up to a percentage of free spce on the disk. You can ________ the amount of disk space used, but cannot ________ it above the _______.

A

decrease
increase
default

50
Q

What happens when available disk space for restore points is used?

A

Older restore points are deleted to make room.

51
Q

System Restore is enabled _____________.

A

automatically

52
Q

Which Windows OS systems use System Restore?

A

Windows XP and later.

53
Q

What is Previous Versions?

A

also called Shadow Copies, takes snapshots of files and folders and protects against accidental deletion or modification of user data files.

54
Q

Which versions of Windows is Previous Versions available?

A

Vista/7

55
Q

What does Previous Versions not protect?

A

Disk failure

56
Q

Where are Previous Versions backups saved?

A

Same disk.

57
Q

Facts about backups to keep in mind:

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Backup user data more often than the system, it changes more frequently.

Backup system state data and applications (or make a restore point) whenever you make a system change.

58
Q

Be sure to ____ your backup and restore strategy. It does no good to back up your data if you can’t restore it.

A

test

59
Q

Backup media should be stored _______ to prevent the same disaster from affecting the network and the backup media.

A

offsite

60
Q

Backups can be scheduled using the tools within the ______ utility, or by creating a ___ ____ in the _________ _____ folder in the Control Panel.

A

Backup, new task

Scheduled Tasks

61
Q

To protect your Windows XP system, you’ve used the Automated System Restore wizard in the Backup utility to create an ASR diskette. Will this adequately protect your data?

A

No, you need to create a backup of your user data as well.

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