Q & A

1:Name four uses for backup technology.
2:What is offline storage?
3:What does backup metadata do?
4:What does tape rotation do?
5:Explain the difference between incremental and differential backups.
6:What is hot backup?
7:Name two advantages of backing up over the SAN.
8:True or false: LAN-free backup requires backup data to move through the application servers being backed up.
9:A data mover is used in what kind of SAN-based backup?
10:Why does disk capacity for backup scale and tape capacity not scale?

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