Advanced Backup School: Quiz for Lessons 1-3

Now that you've attended the webcasts for
Lesson 1,
Lesson 2 and
Lesson 3 of our Advanced Backup School, take the quiz below to test your knowledge. To check if you answered correctly, hover your mouse cursor over the word 'Answer' in red text. Good luck!
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According to W. Curtis Preston what can hamper your tape backup and restores? |
Too much tape drive power
Incremental backups
Multiplexing
Multistreaming
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You can increase your tape throughput by REMOVING tape drives? |
True
False
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When factoring the price of tape you must also consider: |
Drives
Slots
Media
All of the above
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Which step can help you best determine the amount of multiplexing stream groups for your environment? |
Create a custom configuration for each backup environment
Use include lists
Determine compression ratio
Installing disk-based backup
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How can you determine how fast a multistream should be? |
This is typically based on the multiplexing setting
Knowing how many backup jobs you have
Counting tape drives
Both the first and second choices
None of the above
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According to W. Curtis Preston, FEWER backups mean: |
More successful backups
More cost
More difficult restores
More data lost
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An insect repellant
Disk-to-disk-to-tape
A new Arnold Schwarzenegger movie
I have no idea
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In a D2D2T environment how can you connect to the backup servers? |
Fibre Channel
NFS or CIFS
GbE
All of the above
None of the above
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What is the biggest issue W. Curtis Preston sees with using file systems for backup? |
Too expensive
Hard to restore from
Provisioning and sharing
Management
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According to Curtis, sending your original tapes off-site to be archived is? |
A good idea, better than nothing
A very bad idea, you must copy your original tapes
Cost effective
A solid recovery plan
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| ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Return to the top of the page |
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W. Curtis Preston is the Vice President of Data Protection Services at GlassHouse Technologies. He authored Using SANs and NAS and Unix Backup and Recovery, the seminal O'Reilly book on backup. He has been designing storage systems for more than 10 years and has designed systems for environments ranging from backup systems for small businesses to enterprise storage systems for Fortune 100 companies. His passion for backup and recovery began with managing the data growth of a 24x7, mission-critical environment. Since that time, Preston has been able to help many companies design resilient storage systems, and his client list includes many Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 companies. Copyright 2005 TechTarget |
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