You are an Enterprise administrator for contoso.com. The company has a head office and 20 branch offices. The corporate network of the company consists of a single Active Directory domain. All the servers in the domain run Windows Server 2008 and all client computers run Windows Vista.
Each branch office contains a file server that stores users’ data. You have been assigned the task to design a strategy for backing up the file servers and ensure that the backups are scheduled, allow individual file recovery and a complete server recovery.
Besides this, your backup strategy must provide decentralized control over backups and recovery in minimum administrative effort. Which of the following options would you choose to accomplish the desired task?

A.
Use Windows Server Backup to back up volumes to DVD.

B.
Configure Volume Shadow Copies.

C.
Use Windows Server Backup to back up to an external USB drive.

D.
Install the Windows Recovery Disc feature and then create a Scheduled task that runs recdisc.exe.

E.
None of the above

Explanation:

To design a strategy for backing up the file servers and ensure that the backups are scheduled, allow individual file recovery and a complete server recovery, you need to use Windows Server Backup to back up to an external USB drive.
Backup to USB drives are easy and simple. It provides software and hardware features to make connecting any USB device just about as foolproof as possible. Most backup software now supports USB devices. External USB drives are highly portable and can be used to back up several computers on the same drive.
You cannot use Windows Server Backup to back up volumes to DVD because Windows Server Backup doesn’t support system state or file level backups and restores when using DVDs. And you can’t schedule backups to DVD.