Question

A financial services company runs a transactional database in the cloud. Business stakeholders state that in a disaster the company can tolerate losing at most 15 minutes of committed transactions, and the application must be fully operational again within 2 hours. The current backup strategy takes a full snapshot once every 24 hours. Which change BEST aligns the backup and recovery approach with the stated business requirements?

Accepted Answer

Enable continuous transaction log shipping every 5 minutes and pre-stage automation to restore the latest snapshot plus logs to a standby instance

Answer

Increase the full snapshot frequency to once every 4 hours and keep manual restore procedures

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Retain the 24-hour full snapshot but replicate it to a second region for durability

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Switch to weekly full snapshots with daily incremental backups to reduce storage costs