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If you have a SCSI attached robot and in device monitor you see the drives marked as AVR, what does that mean and how would you fix it? 2. If I asked you to tell me if a client has Netbackup on it just by using a telnet command what would you do? 3. If you wanted to know what IP address netbackup was using to perform backups what command would you run and where would you run it? 4. What is flash backup? 5. How is image stored in netbackup 6. If a media ID A04567 comes back and it is frozen, what are the steps to unfreeze it and move it back to scratch from the command line? 7. If you wanted to bypass netbackup commands and move a tape from slot 1 to drive 3 how would you do that? 8. What is the client version supported by NBU 6.x and 5.x masters 9. If your last catalog backup was two days ago and the master server crashed what would you have to do to bring your environment back up to present time? 10. How do you find a disk based image via the command line and then delete it? 11. How do you import an NBU image that has been written to a disk storage unit? 12. What are the critical catalogs or databases on a Media Server? 13. How would you tune NetBackup to increase backup performance? In which location(path) the temp files located in Netbackup for Windows/Unix? 14.What is the process of importing images and why do we import images? 15.How to Importing and expiring images? 16.What does it mean by inventoring a robot? 17.What is SAN media server? 18. How to check tape is bad? 19. How to check the tape is already expired or not? 20. How to check volume pool? 21 Media has been already expired, How to find out? 22. How to check tape is in cap? 53. How to see log entries, how to create log directories? 24.SQL Script.. in client..how to create? 25. How to install media server(with device configuration steps)? 26.what is avr mode 27. There is a Tape library with 10 drives ...Can we able to create 2 Storage units.....? 28.There are 1000 Client machines , 999 machines are transferring datas in good speed but one client machine is taking too long to transfer a datas ..... That is ...backup should complete within 2 hours ..but after 12 hours and more ...the data transfer is still happening.... why?

1. What is User Backup,User Archive & How to take? 2. Difference between 5.x, 6.x VNB 3 .In which location(path) the temp files located in Netbackup for Windows/Unix? 4. How do you configure a client for automatic backups? 5. What's the difference between diff incr and cumulative incr? What happens when I mix them on Windows client... Unix client? 6. How is a changed file determined on Unix?

7. When would I, or would I not, use cross mount points? 8. What is the difference between a Volume Group and a Volume Pool? 9. How do you back up the catalog? Why is this important? What do you have todo if you don't have a catalog backup? 10. How do you recover the catalog? 11. How do you configure retention levels for a backup? 12. If I install the Admin client on an NT workstation, what else has to be done for it to work... be an authorized server? 13. What is multiplexing? What is multiple data streams? Are they the same? 14 .how can I recover an corrupted image? 15. How can we assign barcode rules? 16. What is OTM? TIR? 17. What format does NetBackup write the tape in? 18. How does NetBackup tie together with Media Manager? 19. How do I create a Storage Unit that will only be used by one client? 20. What is the difference between the expiration date for a volume in NetBackup's media catalog and Media Manager's volume database? 22. What is the difference between a frozen volume and a suspended volume? 23. How many Robot Control Hosts can a DLT tape library have? 24. What does the bpbkar process do? bpsched? bpbrm? bpdbm? ltid? What process controls a DLT tape library... a DLT tape drive? What is the AVRD process? 25. Why is the catalog the most important component of Netbackup? 26. What does status 59 mean in the activity monitor? 27. Installation process for NBU 5.x, 6.x? 28. what is AVR mode? 29. Why is a binary catalog more efficient than an ASCII catalog? 30. What are NBU daemons and how to process

1. If you have a SCSI attached robot and in device monitor you see the drives marked as AVR, what does that mean and how would you fix it? 2. If I asked you to tell me if a client has Netbackup on it just by using a telnet command what would you do? ANS: Telnet command used to check the bpcd port is running on the client Telnet < host name> bpcd /13782 3. If you wanted to know what IP address netbackup was using to perform backups what command would you run and where would you run it? ANS: use bpclntcmd pn from master server to the client. Bpcover r < host name> 4. What is flash backup? 5. How is image stored in netbackup 6. If a media ID A04567 comes back and it is frozen, what are the steps to unfreeze it and move it back to scratch from the command line? ANS: bpmedia unfreez < Media ID>

Through GUI , right click on the media to move to scratch volume pool 7. If you wanted to bypass netbackup commands and move a tape from slot 1 to drive 3 how would you do that? ANS: robtest s1 d3 8. What is the client version supported by NBU 6.x and 5.x masters ANS: The version support from 6.x to 4.5 9. If your last catalog backup was two days ago and the master server crashed what would you have to do to bring your environment back up to present time? ANS: I am expecting some one answer to this question. 10. How do you find a disk based image via the command line and then delete it? ANS: http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/279174.htm 11. How do you import an NBU image that has been written to a disk storage unit? 12. What are the critical catalogs or databases on a Media Server? 13. How would you tune NetBackup to increase backup performance? In which location(path) the temp files located in Netbackup for Windows/Unix? 14.What is the process of importing images and why do we import images? ANS: There are two phases. Phase I: It builds the skeleton metadata Phase II: It allows you to select which images to actually complete the import process. http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/240402.htm 15.How to Importing and expiring images? 16.What does it mean by inventoring a robot? 17.What is SAN media server? 18. How to check tape is bad? 19. How to check the tape is already expired or not? 20. How to check volume pool? 21 Media has been already expired, How to find out? 22. How to check tape is in cap? 53. How to see log entries, how to create log directories? 24.SQL Script.. in client..how to create? ANS: Start> program> Backup, restore and archive> select DBs and save. It will create .bch files 25. How to install media server(with device configuration steps)? 26.what is avr mode 27. There is a Tape library with 10 drives ...Can we able to create 2 Storage units.....? ANS: As per my knowledge. N no. of storage units you can create. But mail criteria to create a storage unit is. 1: It should be same robot controller 2: It should be same library 3: It should be same media server connected 4: It should be same Density. 28.There are 1000 Client machines , 999 machines are transferring datas in good speed but one client machine is taking too long to transfer a datas ..... That is ...backup should complete within 2 hours ..but after 12 hours and more ...the data transfer is still happening.... why? ANS: Please check the Network bandwidth. BPTM,bpbrm on both master and media server and bpbkar and bpcd logs on clients. I am appreciated if any one give more information on this.

1. What is errorcode 58 and trouble shooting? 2. What is 99 errorcode and troubleshooting? 3. If ndmp backup faile how do troubleshooging? 4.. How to take catalog backup? 5. How fo restore catalog backup? 6. How can we assign barcode rules? 7. How to install media server(with device configuration steps)? 8. Basic questions about vault and VTL? 9. How to check the tape is already expired or not? 10. How to check volume pool? 11 Media has been already expired, How to find out? 12. How to check tape is in cap? 13. How to see log entries, how to create log directories? 14. How to check tape is bad?