Which backup option should you use?

You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2014 instance that contains a financial database hosted on a storage area network (SAN).

The financial database has the following characteristics:

The database is continually modified by users during business hours from Monday through Friday between 09:00 hours and 17:00 hours. Five percent of the existing data is modified each day.

The Finance department loads large CSV files into a number of tables each business day at 11:15 hours and 15:15 hours by using the BCP or BULK INSERT commands. Each data load adds 3 GB of data to the database.

These data load operations must occur in the minimum amount of time.

A full database backup is performed every Sunday at 10:00 hours. Backup operations will be performed every two hours (11:00, 13:00, 15:00, and 17:00) during business hours.

On Wednesday at 10:00 hours, the development team requests you to refresh the database on a development server by using the most recent version.

You need to perform a full database backup that will be restored on the development server.

Which backup option should you use?
A . NORECOVERY
B . FULL
C . NO_CHECKSUM
D . CHECKSUM
E . Differential
F . BULK_LOGGED
G . STANDBY
H . RESTART
. SKIP
. Transaction log
. DBO ONLY
. COPY_ONLY
. SIMPLE
. CONTINUE AFTER ERROR

View Answer

Answer: L

Explanation:

COPY_ONLY specifies that the backup is a copy-only backup, which does not affect the normal sequence of backups. A copy-only backup is created independently of your regularly scheduled, conventional backups. A copy-only backup does not affect your overall backup and restore procedures for the database.

References:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/statements/backup-transact-sql