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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 14 .how can I recover an corrupted image? 17. What format does NetBackup write the tape in? 23. How many Robot Control Hosts can a DLT tape library have????????????????/// 14. bpexpdate then bpimport 17. tar 23. one See. Easy answers offer little insight, but followup questions on... 14. bpexpdate. when is bpexpdate -deassignempty run? 14. bpimport. Why are there two phases? 17. where is tar in NetBackup and what is it called? 23. how can you change the control host? 1) About RMAN.. backup.. what is backup sequence of rman backup 2) SQL Script.. in client..how to create? 3) How to install media server(with device configuration steps) 4) basic questions about vault and VTL 17. where is tar in NetBackup and what is it called? ??? frankly speaking i hav no idea about this question can anyone help Tar is format of tapes Tar is format of tapes written by netbackup

go to host properties->master server->properties--Media and there is option called allow media overwrite.. same can be found in bp.conf in ALLOW_MEDIA_OVERWRITE # Name the mandatory disk group in VxVM 3.5 ? How will you configure VxVM in 3.5 ? ANS: rootdg is the mandatory disk group in VxVM 3.5, vxinstall is the command to configure VxVM, It will create the disk groups, initializes the disks and adds them to the group. # How will you create private and shared disk group using VxVM ? ANS: For Private DG: Command: vxdg init For Shared DG: Command: vxdg -s init < disk1 disk2 disk3 > # Which are the different layouts for volumes in VxVM ? ANS: mirror, stripe, concat (default one), raid5, stripe-mirror, mirror-stripe. # What is the basic difference between private disk group and shared disk group ? ANS: Private DG: The DG which is only visible for the host on which you have created it, if the host is a part of cluster, the private DG will not be visible to the other cluster nodes. Shared DG: The DG which is sharable and visible to the other cluster nodes. # How will you add new disk to the existing disk group ? ANS: Run vxdiskadm command, which will open menu driven program to do various disk operations, select add disks option or you can use another command vxdiskadd. # How will you grow/shrink the volume/file system ? What is the meaning of growby and growto options ? What is the meaning on shrinkto and shrinkby options ? ANS: vxassist command is used to do all volume administration, following is the description and syntax. Growby option: This is will grow your file system by adding new size to the existing file system. Growto option: This will grow your file system as per the new size. This WILL NOT ADD new size to the existing one. Shrinkby option: This will shrink your file system by reducing new size from existing file system. Shrinkto option: This will shrink your file system as per the new size. This WILL NOT REDUCE the file system by reducing new size. Command: vxassist -g [growto, growby, shrinkto, shrinkby] length # How will you setup and unsetup disks explicitly using VxVM ? ANS: You can use /etc/vx/bin/vxdiskunsetup to unsetup the disk, and /etc/vx/vxdisksetup to setup the disk.

# How will you list the disks, which are in different disk groups ? ANS: vxdisk list is the command will list the disks from the DG which is currently imported, you can check the same using vxprint command too. vxdisk -o alldgs list command list all the disks which are in different dg's. # What is the private region in VxVM ? ANS: Private region stores the structured VxVM information, it also stores the disk ID and disk geometry. In short words it has metadata of the disk. # If, vxdisk list command gives you disks status as "error", what steps you will follow to make the respective disks online ? ANS: If you faced this issue because of fabric disconnection then simply do vxdisk scandisks, otherwise unsetup the disk using using /etc/vx/bin/vxdiskunsetup and setup the disks again using /etc/vx/bin/vxdisksetup, this will definitely help! [ /etc/vx/bin/vxdiskunsetup will remove the private region from the disk and destroys data, backup the data before using this option] If you wanted to know what IP address net-backup was using to per-form back-ups what com-mand would you run and where would you run it? How is image stored in netbackup? If you wanted to bypass net-backup com-mands and move a tape from slot 1 to drive 3 how would you do that? If your last cat-a-log backup was two days ago and the mas-ter server crashed what would you have to do to bring your envi-ron-ment back up to present time? How do you import an NBU image that has been writ-ten to a disk stor-age unit? Dif-fer-ence between cat-a-log on mas-ter and media server. What are the crit-i-cal cat-a-logs or data-bases on a Media Server? How would you tune Net-Backup to increase backup performance? Is it possible to have a system (running netbackup, the veritas client) and collect data from another server, and push all the data to the veritas backup server. What is a level 0 backup? What is an incremental backup? What steps are required to perform a bare-metal recovery? Name key files or directories on a UNIX system that should always be backed up. Name key files or directories on a Windows system that should always be backed up. What is RAID 0? What is RAID 0+1? Why is it better than 0? What is RAID-5? Why would you NOT want to encapsulate a root directory with Veritas? What is concatenation? What is striping? What is a spindle?