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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? 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? vmquery 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? Can not connect client 2. What is 99 errorcode and troubleshooting? NDMP generic error 3. If ndmp backup faile how do troubleshooging? 4.. How to take catalog backup?
To configure Hot Catalog Backups: 1. From the NetBackup Administration Console screen, select the Configure the Catalog Backup. 2. In the first screen of the NetBackup Catalog Backup Wizard, click Next. 3. On the Catalog Backup Method screen, verify that Online, hot catalog backup is selected and click Next. 4. On the NetBackup Catalog Backup Policy screen, verify that Create a new catalog backup policy is selected, click Next. 5. On the Policy Name and Type screen, enter a valid Policy name and click Next.

6. On the Backup Type screen, select to do a Full Backup. If desired, select to perform an Incremental Backup, either Incremental or Differential. Click Next. 7. On the Rotation screen, set the desired rotation frequency and click Next. 8. On the Start Window screen, select the desired Start Window. Because these are Hot Catalog backups, the Start Window does not need to be outside of the Start Window for normal backups. Click Next. 9. On the Catalog Disaster Recovery Method screen, select whether to use Disk and Tape, Disk only, or Tape only. If using disk, provide an appropriate path. This path is usually a location other than where NetBackup is installed. Provide Logon and Password information if necessary. For tape, provide an appropriate Media ID and Media density. Click Next. 10. On the E-mail Catalog Disaster Recovery Information screen, choose either Yes or No to have the Disaster Recovery Information stored via email. Provide an appropriate E-mail address and click Next. 11. To save the Hot Catalog Backup policy, click Finish. 12. After NetBackup finishes adding the policy, verify it appears on the NetBackup Catalog Backup Policy screen. This time, verify that Create a new catalog backup policy is not selected and click Next. 13. You have now finished the Catalog backup configuration process. Click Finish to exit the wizard. The policy will now appear in the Policies dialog of the NetBackup Administration Console. It can be modified similar to any other policy.

5. How fo restore catalog backup? 6. How can we assign barcode rules? /usr/openv/volmgr/bin/vmrule -add <barcode_tag> <media_type> <pool_name> <max_mounts> "<description>"

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?