Hi guys. Sorry to say..this is the last VMCE Practice I have. Will probably not pick this back up again until some time after the v13 release..and imo...makes sense since it’s so close to release. So let’s get to this week’s Community VMCE practice question. As with the previous several,
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You’ve just performed a bare metal restore of a physical Windows server. When the backup for the server runs on the next cycle/schedule, you’d like for it to just start a new chain in case there was any corruption within any of the old backup files. To achieve this goal, you would like to delete all the backups from before the restore. How can you meet your requirement?
- The old backup chain is deleted automatically after a successful restore, there is no need for manual intervention
- This can be done in the Agent for Windows Control Panel: System Backup > Remove Backup Files
- The task cannot be completed and you will just have to wait until Backup Retention is met
- Use File Explorer to browse the Backup Job’s target Repository and delete the whole backup chain. At next Job run, a new Full will be taken
