Backup question

[prasad]

Hi,

In Question number 109 regarding disaster recovery plan question.

Jack's project is to define the backup and restore section of his organization's
disaster recovery plan for his organization's distributed NGX installation. Jack
must meet the following required and desired objectives:
Required objective: The security policy repository must be backed up no less
frequently than every 24 hours.
Desired objective: The NGX components that enforce the Security Policies should
be backed up no less frequently than once a week.
Desired objective: Back up NGX logs no less frequently than once a week.
Administrators should be able to view backed up logs in SmartView Tracker.
Jack's disaster recovery plan is as follows:
Use the cron utility to run the upgrade_export command each night on the
SmartCenter Servers. Configure the organization's routine backup software to back
up the files created by the upgrade_export command.
Configure the SecurePlatform backup utility to back up the Security Gateways
every Saturday night.
Use the cron utility to run the upgrade_export command each Saturday night on the
Log Servers. Configure an automatic, nightly logexport. Configure the
organization's routine backup software to back up the export log every night.
Jack's plan:

A. Meets the required objective but does not meet either desired objective.
B. Meets the required objective and both desired objectives.
C. Meets the required objective and only one desired objective.
D. Does not meet the required objective


The Answer according to me should be:

C ie Meets the required objective and only one desired objective.

Please let me know your comments on the same....

[northlandboy]

Let's see:

Required objective: Security Policy Repository backed up at least daily - well, we've got a daily upgrade_export running, so check.

Desired objective: Enforcement modules backed up at least weekly - SPLAT backup configured every Sat night, so check

Desired objective: Back up logs at least weekly - check, since he's doing it nightly - but the desired objective is also that you be able to view backed up logs in Tracker - which you can't do with exported logs (unless something's changed recently).

Not that doing a logexport is necessarily a bad thing, it means you can read them in future with pretty much any OS/application. It's hard enough trying to track down 4.1 clients these days - in 5 years time it will be the same for NGX clients.

So your choice seems OK.

[cbrandst@gmail.com]

I agree on this one as well. I'm submitting C to feedback@testking.com along with this description:

Answer C: Exported logs cannot be viewed in Smartview Tracker. All other objectives met.


I guess you could argue that you can still view those logs in SmartView Tracker, but you are not viewing the files that are exported, you are just viewing the one still available in SmartView Tracker. Exporting the logs doesn't remove them, you just can't open the text files that have been Exported.

This is the kind of discussion that goes on in my head when taking an exam and makes me second guess myself. Not to mention burning up valuable time thinking about it. Plus, it's hard for me to drop a question like that after I've put a bunch of thought into it and move on to the next question. I really hate scenerio questions for that reason.

I'm sticking with C and that's my final answer. :)