You have a server named Server1 that runs Windows Server 2012 R2.
A network technician installs a new disk on Server1 and creates a new volume. The
properties of the new volume are shown in the exhibit. (Click the Exhibit button.)
You need to ensure that you can restore files on volume D by using the Previous Versions tab.
What should you do first?
A.
Install the File Server Resource Manager role service.
B.
Convert the disk to a dynamic disk.
C.
Run the convert.exe command.
D.
Format volume D.
Explanation:
Shadow Copies for Shared Folders is activated at the volume level. A Shadow copy is
essentially a copy of the disk at a specific moment in time, and this has to be set up do that
you can have a Previous Version that can be used to restore files. However, prior to any
action taken to set up shadow copies, you need to format the disk first since it is mentioned
that it is a NEW volume that was created.
Format D:
I was answering some questions and this one came across me, I found out that the right answer is (D), but why can anyone explains that.
Unformatted disk doesn’t have security tab, so disk is formatted. But no other answer is right for me. ????
I believe the correct answer is not in the options. I would say next step would be to enable the Shadow copy for volume D from the Shared Folders tasks: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc771893.aspx
before using “previous visions tab”, you must format the volume to “NTFS”.
but this volume had formatted to “ReFS”,
so format it to NTFS, then you can user shadow copy and previous visions tab.
Yhawx how do you know that this volume is NTFS? And dbKarblo this volume has the Security tab so what are you talking about?
@Thabo this volume is ReFS since you cannot see the Quota option on the tab. Thats why you first need to format the volume and set it to NTFS to enable shadow copy.
screenshots for ntfs and refs disks here: https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/55d1eadd-f87c-4ba8-9c24-28b945082e60/shadow-copies-tab-is-missing-from-refs-on-windows-server-2012?forum=winserverfiles
It does not matter NTFS or Refs.
Even Shadow Copies tab missing, you can steal use it.
Right click on C drive, “configure shadow copies” should be a context option.
Just tested it in my lab, it works perfectly
@Vazovskiy kindly test it first on your Lab so that you can ensure that we can all pass the exam. You cannot enable Shadow Copy on a volume that has ReFS File System. Just sharing base on my test lab.
correct myself
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee923636(v=ws.10).aspx
“the shadow copy storage area must be on an NTFS volume. The volume to be shadow copied does not need to be an NTFS volume, but at least one volume mounted on the system must be an NTFS volume.”
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So to be 100% sure certainly better format.
From the properties windows screenshot, you can know how the volume is formatted:
– FAT/FAT32 has 6 tabs, and doesn’t have the Security Tab obviously
– NTFS has 9 tabs
– ReFS has 7 tabs, missing the Shadow Copies tab and the Quota tab from NTFS.
So screenshot is from an ReFS drive and needs to be reformatted to NTFS to use Shadow Copies+Previous Versions.
Format D drive to NTFS.
You cannot configure shadow copies on other file systems
I am not too sure of this question. The property of this D:Drive shows that the disk if formatted in NTFS. I can see the Previous Versions tab where VSS can be configured via Disk Property, enable disk property –> previous version –> enable.