Your current backup schedule involves incremental backups of all data Monday through Saturday, with a full backup on Sunday. Last Saturday, one of your storage drives failed prior to running the daily backup. What must be done to recover the data on the failed drive?
A) The last full backup must be restored first, followed by the last incremental backup prior to the drive failure.
B) Only the last incremental backup needs to be restored.
C) The incremental backups must be restored in sequential order, but the full backup is not necessary.
D) The full backup must be restored first, followed by all incremental backups in sequential order leading up to the day of failure.

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Quizplus · Accepted Answer

Since the storage drive failed prior to running the daily backup, the last incremental backup would not have included all the data on the failed drive. Therefore, the full backup must be restored first in order to have a complete dataset, followed by all incremental backups in sequential order up to the day of the failure to ensure that all changes made since the last full backup are restored.

Your Current Backup Schedule Involves Incremental Backups of All Data