Question

When planning a backup strategy, ideally one needs to prioritize important data and only back up what is absolutely necessary for operations. Assuming storage limitations, which of these is LEAST important to back up?

Answer 1

The available options are:

Emails

Financial spreadsheets

User downloads

Databases

Answer:

User downloads

Explanation:

The correct answer is User downloads, this is because, the downloaded files are in cloud or another website memory or database, which serves as an alternative backup already. Thus, those downloaded files can still be recovered at later time when one needs to get the files back.

However, Emails, Financial spreadsheets and Databases, do not have any other place to retrieve them, because they are originally created and are yet to be uploaded to cloud or another website memory space to serves as alternative back up.