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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? http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?
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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 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 a 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. 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? 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 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 ========================================================= ========================================================= ========================================================= = 1. If you have a SCSI 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 a mail criterion 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? ========================================================= ========================================================= ========================================================= = 1. What is Multiplexing 2. What is Multiplestreaming

3. You have a policy with schedule running a 1 week frequency backups, running sundays, monday morning backup fail and you restart the job manualy, how many days will pass until the next weekly schedule job starts automaticly? How to duplicate tapes? What is a catalog? And watcare should be taken in managing catalogs? What is multiplexing and multistreaming with examples? What is high and low water mark? How to restore backup medias from one master to other master server? If a catalog is corruped? How to restore? How to archive catalog or how to reduce catalog if catalog sixe is increased? How to use netbackupscripting for fine tuning? Basic parameters to create new policy? How is image stored in netbackup? 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? There is a Tape library with 10 drives ...Can we able to create 2 Storage units.....? ========================================================= ========================================================= ========================================================= = Sample Exam 250-370: Administration of Symantec NetBackup 7.0 for Windows 1. Each morning, the administrator of a large and complex Symantec NetBackup 7.0 environment checks the results of all tape-based backups that took place the previous night. Which report should be run to review the overall backup information for a given timeframe? a. Tape Logs b. Client Backups c. Status of Backups d. Tape Summary

2. What must be done to remove an AdvancedDisk pool from a media server? a. remove the disk volumes one at a time b. remove storage units and expire images that target the disk pool c. clear the high and low water marks d. expire the credentials from the storage server 3. Which two Global Client Attributes can be over-ridden? (Select two.) a. allow server file writes b. allow client browse c. general client attributes d. allow client restores e. client connect options 4. A Prioritized storage unit group is configured with two BasicDisk storage units and one tape storage unit that is configured with three DLT tape drives. What happens if a backup is running on this storage unit group and one of the two BasicDisk storage units becomes full as the job is being written to it? a. The backup continues on another media server if "media server spanning" is enabled and a storage unit is free. b. The backup continues to a tape on the same media server. c. The backup can continue on the other disk storage unit (if available) in the group if "disk spanning" is enabled. d. The backup fails because spanning is only allowed on tape storage units. 5. A network administrator sent an email stating that emergency maintenance was required during the night on the network used for backup traffic. Which status code indicates a job was affected by the network maintenance? a. Status Code 11 b. Status Code 58 c. Status Code 84 d. Status Code 150 6. Which two components does OpsCenter Analytics replace? (Select two.) a. backup reporter b. open storage option c. operations manager d. shared storage option e. Java console 7. A company has changed the SAN configuration. After reconnecting the robotic tape library to the Symantec NetBackup 7.0 media server, the administrator begins to process backup

jobs. Symantec NetBackup times out trying to mount a volume for backup indicating error code 52. What is the cause of this error? a. The robot lacks cleaning media. b. The device path to the tape drives on the SAN has changed. c. The robot is reading an incorrect barcode. d. The device mappings file is corrupt. 8. What is the default location for a Symantec NetBackup 7.0 installation on Windows? a. C:\Program Files\Veritas b. C:\NetBackup c. C:\Program Files\Symantec d. C:\Program Files\NetBackup 9. Cleaning media resides in which volume pool? a. NetBackup b. None c. Scratch d. Clean 10. How are release updates installed on the master server using LiveUpdate? a. right-click the LiveUpdate policy type in Policies and choose Update b. run the nbliveup command on the master server c. right-click the master and select Scan for updates d. download the patch files from liveupdate.symantec.com

11. What is the default media multiplexing level on a policy schedule? a. 0 b. 1 c. 2 d. 3 12. Two Symantec NetBackup 7.0 master servers, PROD1 and PROD2 use similar barcodeenabled tape libraries and all media have eight digit bar codes. PROD1 uses default media ID generation and PROD2 uses six digit customized media ID generation (#T:#P:3:4:5:6). The administrator needs to restore data from a media used in PROD1 onto a server on PROD2. What should the administrator do to successfully restore data? a. inventory media on the media server in the PROD1 environment b. create a new media ID generation rule in the PROD1 environment c. add the volume manually using the media ID in the PROD2 environment d. add a new barcode rule in the PROD2 environment 13. Which policy attribute should the administrator configure to recover individual messages and Public Folders databases from Microsoft Exchange server backups? a. enable NetBackup File System (NBFS) b. enable granular backups c. enable granular recovery d. enable Network File System (NFS) 14. How can new tapes be placed into a specific volume pool automatically using the robot inventory utility? a. write a script that reads the labels on the tapes and then uses the vmadd command to add these tapes b. make sure the tapes have barcode labels with a specific prefix and create an appropriate barcode rule c. configure the media type mappings to use a new default volume pool d. use the Media and Device Configuration section of the administration console to add new volumes 15. An administrator has successfully recovered all Symantec NetBackup 7.0 catalogs, which used the only two catalog backup tapes. A number of backups have taken place and a catalog backup is run automatically. The catalog backup fails with an error code 96. The administrator investigates and finds that all of the tapes have been allocated. What is the cause of this error? a. The catalog recovery freezes the catalog tapes. b. The catalog recovery freezes the catalog tapes in the NBU-Catalog volume pool. c. The catalog recovery suspends the catalog tapes in the NBU-Catalog volume pool. d. The catalog recovery suspends the catalog tapes.

16. In a Symantec NetBackup 7.0 environment, a client with the hostname Pluto returns error code 57 whenever the media server requests Pluto to start a backup. The administrator is able to ping Pluto from the media server, then run the command "telnet Pluto bpcd" from the root prompt on the media server. What does this telnet command check? a. whether Pluto allows remote login via bpcd b. whether Pluto has any service listening on the bpcd port c. whether Pluto meets media server proxy link requirements d. whether connectivity exists between Pluto and the media server 17. An administrator connects remotely via terminal console to change the status of a media. Which command should be used to accomplish this task? a. bpimmedia b. bpsetmedia c. bpmedia d. nbemmcmd 18. Which information is backed up by a cumulative incremental backup schedule? a. files and folders that have changed since the last incremental backup b. files and folders that have changed since the last full backup c. only files that have changed since the last incremental backup d. only folders that have changed since the last incremental backup 19. To enable Symantec Netbackup 7.0 to manage allocation of volumes to volume pools, media must be placed into which pool? a. Scratch b. NetBackup c. None d. DataStore

20. Due to a problem with restores, a support call is opened. The support representative asks that backups for a specific client be located to determine the last time that the client had a backup. The administration console is unavailable. Which other location can be checked to determine whether the client has had a backup? a. the image database b. the EMM database c. the client database d. the media database Answers: 1-c, 2-b, 3-b&d, 4-c, 5-b, 6-a&c, 7-b, 8-a, 9-b, 10-b, 11-b, 12-c, 13-c, 14-b, 15-a, 16-b, 17-c, 18-b, 19-a, 20-a ========================================================= ========================================================= ========================================================= = Sample Exam 250-270: Administration of Symantec NetBackup 7.0 for Unix 1. A company has just expanded the Symantec NetBackup 7.0 environment by adding an additional media server. What is the fastest way to update several hundred Symantec NetBackup clients with the new media server information? a. run the update_all_clients script b. run the add_media_server_on_clients script c. specify the new media server in the Backup, Archive, and Restore interface d. specify the new media server in the client properties 2. An administrator reviews backup jobs from the previous evening and notices a media error. In addition, the jobs appear to be running slower than usual. Which two reports will help the administrator identify the media errors and the transfer rate? (Select two.) a. Tape Logs b. Tape Written c. Images on Tape d. Status of Backups e. All Log Entries 3. During catalog recovery, the DR file is unavailable, but the images database is intact. What is the first step that should be taken to resolve this issue? a. identify catalog backup from the images database b. run import on all media in the robot c. import catalog image to disk to a temporary location

d. run bprecover -wizard from the command line with additional switches

4. When using the NetBackup-Java console, which file needs to be edited to allow someone other than root or administrator to administrate the Symantec NetBackup 7.0 master server? a. bp.conf b. vm.conf c. jnb.conf d. auth.conf 5. The NetBackup Resource Broker (NBRB) maintains resource requests for jobs that are queued. Which two criteria does NBRB use to evaluate the resource requests and provide resources to each job sequentially? (Select two.) a. job priority b. date of last successful backup c. data classification rank ID d. time when NBRB receives the request e. available network bandwidth 6. An administrator has successfully recovered all Symantec NetBackup 7.0 catalogs, which used the only two catalog backup tapes. A number of backups have taken place and a catalog backup is run automatically. The catalog backup fails with an error code 96. The administrator investigates and finds that all of the tapes have been allocated. What is the cause of this error? a. The catalog recovery freezes the catalog tapes. b. The catalog recovery freezes the catalog tapes in the NBU-Catalog volume pool. c. The catalog recovery suspends the catalog tapes in the NBU-Catalog volume pool. d. The catalog recovery suspends the catalog tapes.

7. An administrator is duplicating a multiplexed backup image that exists on tape. In the Setup Duplication Variables dialog box, the administrator selects all copies to go to Disk storage units and also selects the Preserve Multiplexing option. What are the results of the duplication? a. Multiplexed duplicate images are created on disk. b. Non-multiplexed duplicate images are created on disk. c. An error code is returned indicating that the duplications failed. d. An error code is returned indicating a media mismatch. 8. Which command must be run to reset the cleaning statistics after manually cleaning the drive? a. tpclean -m b. tpclean -c c. tpclean -L d. tpclean f 9. A BasicDisk storage unit is 500 GB and is running out of space. The disk and file system is resized to 800 GB. What needs to be done to take advantage of this new disk space? a. Backups need to be sent to the BasicDisk storage unit. b. The nbdevquery command needs to be run to refresh the disk inventory. c. The NetBackup Disk Manager (bpdm) process needs to be restarted. d. The Apply button in the BasicDisk storage unit configuration window needs to be selected. 10. A Symantec NetBackup 7.0 catalog recovery has failed. Which location contains a log of the recovery? a. /usr/openv/netbackup/logs/bprecover b. /usr/openv/logs/nbdb c. /usr/openv/netbackup/logs/user_ops/username/logs d. /usr/openv/netbackup/logs 11. Due to a problem with restores, a support call is opened. The support representative asks that backups for a specific client be located to determine the last time that the client had a backup. The administration console is unavailable. Which other location can be checked to determine whether the client has had a backup? a. the image database b. the EMM database c. the client database d. the media database

12. A Symantec NetBackup 7.0 administrator at a remote hospital needs to store secure copies of protected data on tape media at an offsite location. What should the administrator do to automatically eject tape media daily and create detailed reports? a. configure a Vault policy and enable the Encryption attribute on the policy b. use tape drives that support hardware encryption and use a Vault policy to perform automated ejects and create reports c. use tape drives that support hardware encryption and use a storage lifecycle policy to perform automated ejects and create reports d. configure a storage lifecycle policy to enable automatic ejects and create reports then enable the Encryption attribute on the policy 13. A job fails with Status Code 96: unable to allocate new media. What are two causes of this error? (Select two.) a. The available media is in a tape device that is down. b. The available media is in a storage unit that is frozen. c. The available media is on a media server that is offline. d. The available media's density is invalid. e. The available media's status is suspended. 14. How can new volumes be added to an existing AdvancedDisk storage pool with minimal impact on the environment? a. run the Configure Disk Pool Wizard to modify the existing pool b. right-click the disk pool and select Change and then select Add Volumes c. create a disk pool for the new volumes and merge it with the existing pool d. right-click the disk pool and select Extend to add the new volumes

15. All Symantec NetBackup 7.0 media servers in an organization are part of a server group called MEDIASRVGRP and are sharing tape drives. Symantec NetBackup clients are configured in policies using "Any Available" for the "Policy storage" attribute. Which media sharing attribute should the administrator specify so that the media server that writes the image to the media owns the media? a. Any b. None c. MEDIASRVGRP d. All 16. Which two commands are used for configuring and managing unified logging? (Select two.) a. vxlogcfg b. vxullogview c. vxullogcfg d. vxlogmgr e. vxlogview f. vxullogmgr 17. An administrator needs to back up a server with a large file system that contains many files. On a daily basis, very little data changes on this file system. Which approach minimizes the total backup time for a given month? a. run full backups monthly and differential incremental backups daily b. run full backups weekly and differential incremental backups daily c. run full backups monthly, cumulative incremental backups weekly, and differential incremental backups daily d. run full backups weekly and cumulative incremental backups daily 18. What effect does enabling robust logging have on logging in Symantec NetBackup 7.0? a. It enables log rotation for legacy logs. b. It enables enhanced verbose detail in logs. c. It enables logs when an error is encountered. d. It enables log size limits of unified logs. 19. In addition to the full backup schedule type, which other schedule can be configured as a synthetic backup? a. differential incremental backup b. cumulative incremental backup c. user backup d. application backup e. Automatic Backup

Answers: 1-b, 2-a&e, 3-a, 4-d, 5-a&d, 6-a, 7-b, 8-a, 9-a, 10-c, 11-a, 12-b, 13-d&e, 14-c, 15-b, 16-a&d, 17-a, 18-a, 19-b ========================================================= ========================================================= ========================================================= Sample Exam 250-265: Data Protection Administration for UNIX using NetBackup 6.5 1. Which files are updated during a master server installation? a. /etc/services,/usr/openv/netbackup/bp.conf,/etc/inetd.conf b. /etc/services,/usr/open/netbackup/vm.conf,/etc/initd.conf c. /etc/service,/usr/openv/netbackup/bp.conf,/etc/inetd.conf d. /etc/service,/usr/openv/netbackup/vm.conf,/etc/inetd.conf 2. Which policy attribute allows backups to be restarted, without starting from the beginning? a. Cross mount points b. Take checkpoints every c. Collect true image restore information d. Collect disaster recovery information 3. What causes tapes to become frozen by NetBackup? a. Using an unlabeled blank tape b. Using an unformatted blank tape c. Excessive read errors d. Excessive write errors

4. A NetBackup client that is the only client in a single policy will have maintenance performed on Friday night and will be down the entire night. It is unnecessary to run backups until Saturday night. Which night? is the best solution to have backups for this client skip Friday night and run on Saturday a. Deactivate the policy b. Modify the policy Active Go into effect at date c. Modify the policy Deactivate policy until date d. Allow the policy to run and ignore the failure for Friday night

5. A NetBackup administrator is getting Status Code 54: Timed out connecting to client for all backups of a client. Which command can be used to help troubleshoot this problem? 1. a. nbping 2. b. bpverify 3. c. bpclntcmd 4. d. bpconnect 6. Which functions are performed by the vxlogcfg command? (Choose three.) a. Displays log settings for an originator b. Copies log files c. Lists configured products d. Shows log files for an originator e. Manages rollover mode 7. You lost all of your NetBackup catalogs and need to recover. Your NetBackup system is up with an empty EMM database. Before recovering your catalog, you must _______. (Choose three.) a. Configure the tape drives b. Configure the storage unit c. Inventory the library d. Move the required media for recovery into the CatalogBackup pool e. Create a NBU-Catalog policy f. Locate the catalog recovery file 8. What must be done before an AdvancedDisk pool can be deleted? (Choose two.) a. All backups to the pool must be expired b. All volumes must be removed from the pool c. The storage server must be deleted

d. The storage unit must be deleted e. The media server must be taken offline

9. A new LAN has been set up to offload a portion of backup traffic from the production network. To differentiate between the two networks, all hosts on the backup network have been given a -bkup suffix. One media server and all of its backup clients have been configured to access this backup network. What should be done to ensure backup traffic uses the new backup network? (Choose two.) a. Configure the option Use specified network interface on each client to specify the -bkup host name of the media server b. Configure the option Use specified network interface on the media server to specify its own -bkup host name c. Add the -bkup host name of the media server to the NetBackup server list on each client d. Add the -bkup host name of each client to the client list on the media server e. Change the name of the media server to the -bkup host name using the Change server function in the console 10. What is the minimum server version that can be upgraded directly to NetBackup 6.5? a. 3.4 b. 4.5 c. 5.1 d. 6.0 11. NetBackup has been configured with ten storage units. A policy must have the ability to use only storage units A and B for its backup jobs. What can be done to allow the policy to use only these two storage units? a. Select Any Available as the policy storage unit b. Create a new storage unit and include storage unit A and storage unit B by configuring multi-copies c. Create a storage unit group with storage unit A and configure drives in storage unit B using multi-copies d. Create a storage unit group that includes storage units A and B and add the group as the policy storage unit

12. When attempting to restore a UNIX client, which policy type needs to be selected? a. Standard b. Linux c. NetWare d. UNIX 13. Which NetBackup settings are used on a media server for performance tuning? (Choose two.) a. UPDATE_INTERVAL b. REFRESH_INTERVAL c. SIZE_DATA_BUFFERS d. NUMBER_DATA_BUFFERS e. DENSITY_DATA_BUFFERS 14. You check the All Log Entries report and find this message: Hot catalog backup is not configured for trainl. How can you configure NetBackup database backups? a. Create a catalog backup policy using policy type NBU-Catalog b. Create a catalog backup policy using policy type Sybase c. Create a catalog backup policy using policy type Standard d. Create a catalog backup policy using policy type MS-Windows-NT 15. A NetBackup system administrator is trying to restore the NetBackup catalogs for disaster recovery testing. Which command is used to restore the NetBackup catalogs? a. bprecover b. bprestore c. dbrecover d. ndbrestore e. bpcatrecover 16. You are configuring the latest model of tape drive and NetBackup requires an updated device mappings package. Where is the device mappings package installed?

a. on the EMM server only b. on all media servers c. on the master server d. only on the media servers that can see the new tape drives

17. What are the supported policy types for synthetic backups? a. Standard or MS-Windows b. Standard or MS-Windows-NT c. DataStore or MS-Windows d. DataStore or Standard 18. How can a NetBackup system administrator add clientA to an existing PolicyA? a. Modify PolicyA Backup Selections and add a backup selection called clientA b. Modify PolicyA Schedules and add a new schedule called clientA c. Modify PolicyA Clients and add a new client called clientA d. Modify PolicyA Attributes and select Backup Network Clients 19. Which statements could be true about tapes that are listed as available? (Choose three.) a. All of the images are expired and the tape is frozen b. All of the images have been manually expired c. The tape is new and has never been written to d. Some of the images are expired and some are unexpired e. Images have met their retention period and are expired 20. Which NetBackup 6.5 logs can be used to help identify disk storage hardware issues? a. nbpem and nbjm b. bpbrm and bpdbm c. nbproxy and bpjpbd d. bptm and bpdm 21. Which utility lets you view contents of the media access port on a TLD robot? a. robtest b. vmquery c. tpconfig d. tpautoconf Answers: 1-a, 2-b, 3-d, 4-b, 5-c, 6-a&c&e, 7-a&c&f, 8-a&d, 9-b&c, 10-c, 11-d, 12-a, 13-c&d, 14a, 15-a, 16-a, 17-b, 18-c, 19-b&c&e, 20-d, 21-a Sample Exam 250-365: Data Protection Administration for Windows using NetBackup 6.5 1. Which policy attribute allows backups to be restarted, without starting from the beginning? a. Cross mount points b. Take checkpoints every c. Collect true image restore information d. Collect disaster recovery information 2. Which NetBackup 6.5 logs can be used to help identify disk storage hardware issues? a. nbpem and nbjm b. bpbrm and bpdbm c. nbproxy and bpjpbd d. bptm and bpdm 3. What causes tapes to become frozen by NetBackup? a. Using an unlabeled blank tape b. Using an unformatted blank tape c. Excessive read errors d. Excessive write errors 4. Which functions are performed by the vxlogcfg command? (Choose three) a. Displays log settings for an originator b. Copies log files c. Lists configured products d. Shows log files for an originator e. Manages rollover mode 5. A NetBackup client that is the only client in a single policy will have maintenance performed on Friday night and will be down the entire night. It is unnecessary to run backups until Saturday night. Which is the best solution to have backups for this client skip Friday night and run on Saturday night? Which command can be used to help troubleshoot this problem?

1. 2. 3. 4.

a. Deactivate the policy b. Modify the policy Active Go into effect at date c. Modify the policy Deactivate policy until date d. Allow the policy to run and ignore the failure for Friday night

6. A NetBackup administrator is getting Status Code 54: Timed out connecting to client for all backups of a client. Which command can be used to help troubleshoot this problem? a. nbping b. bpverify c. bpclntcmd d. bpconnect 7. You lost all of your NetBackup catalogs and need to recover. Your NetBackup system is up with an empty EMM database. Before recovering your catalog, you must _______. (Choose three) a. Configure the tape drives b. Configure the storage unit c. Inventory the library d. Move the required media for recovery into the CatalogBackup pool e. Create a NBU-Catalog policy f. Locate the catalog recovery file 8. A new LAN has been set up to offload a portion of backup traffic from the production network. To differentiate between the two networks, all hosts on the backup network have been given a -bkup suffix. One media server and all of its backup clients have been configured to access this backup network. What should be done to ensure backup traffic uses the new backup network? (Choose two) a. Configure the option Use specified network interface on each client to specify the -bkup host name of the media server b. Configure the option Use specified network interface on the media server to specify its own -bkup host name c. Add the -bkup host name of the media server to the NetBackup server list on each client d. Add the -bkup host name of each client to the client list on the media server e. Change the name of the media server to the -bkup host name using the Change server function in the console 9. What is the minimum server version that can be upgraded directly to NetBackup 6.5? a. 3.4 b. 4.5 c. 5.1 d. 6.0 10. What must be done before an AdvancedDisk pool can be deleted? (Choose two) a. All backups to the pool must be expired b. All volumes must be removed from the pool c. The storage server must be deleted d. The storage unit must be deleted e. The media server must be taken offline 11. NetBackup has been configured with ten storage units. A policy must have the ability to use only storage units A and B for its backup jobs. What can be done to allow the policy to use only these two storage units? a. Select Any Available as the policy storage unit b. Create a new storage unit and include storage unit A and storage unit B by configuring multi-copies c. Create a storage unit group with storage unit A and configure drives in storage unit B using multi-copies d. Create a storage unit group that includes storage units A and B and add the group as the policy storage unit 12. When attempting to restore a UNIX client, which policy type needs to be selected? a. Standard b. Linux c. NetWare d. UNIX 13. You are configuring the latest model of tape drive and NetBackup requires an updated device mappings package. Where is the device mappings package installed? a. on the EMM server only b. on all media servers c. on the master server

d. only on the media servers that can see the new tape drives

14. Which NetBackup settings are used on a media server for performance tuning? (Choose two) a. UPDATE_INTERVAL b. REFRESH_INTERVAL c. SIZE_DATA_BUFFERS d. NUMBER_DATA_BUFFERS e. DENSITY_DATA_BUFFERS 15. A NetBackup system administrator is trying to restore the NetBackup catalogs for disaster recovery testing. Which command is used to restore the NetBackup catalogs? a. bprecover b. bprestore c. dbrecover d. ndbrestore e. bpcatrecover 16. What are the supported policy types for synthetic backups? a. Standard or MS-Windows b. Standard or MS-Windows-NT c. DataStore or MS-Windows d. DataStore or Standard 17. How can a NetBackup system administrator add clientA to an existing PolicyA? a. Modify PolicyA Backup Selections and add a backup selection called clientA b. Modify PolicyA Schedules and add a new schedule called clientA c. Modify PolicyA Clients and add a new client called clientA d. Modify PolicyA Attributes and select Backup Network Clients 18. You check the All Log Entries report and find this message: Hot catalog backup is not configured for trainl. How can you configure NetBackup database backups? a. Create a catalog backup policy using policy type NBU-Catalog b. Create a catalog backup policy using policy type Sybase c. Create a catalog backup policy using policy type Standard d. Create a catalog backup policy using policy type MS-Windows-NT 19. Which statements could be true about tapes that are listed as available? (Choose three) a. All of the images are expired and the tape is frozen b. All of the images have been manually expired c. The tape is new and has never been written to d. Some of the images are expired and some are unexpired e. Images have met their retention period and are expired 20. Which utility lets you view contents of the media access port on a TLD robot? a. robtest b. vmquery c. tpconfig d. tpautoconf Answers: 1-b, 2-d, 3-d, 4-a&c&e, 5-b, 6-c, 7-a&c&f, 8-b&c, 9-c, 10-a&d, 11-d, 12-a, 13-a, 14c&d, 15-a, 16-b, 17-c, 18-a, 19-b&c&e, 20-a ========================================================= ========================================================= ========================================================= = 1) Which are the backup types that are available in Netbackup ? AnswerDifferential Incremental Backup Commulative Incremental Backup User Backup User Archive Full Backup 2)What is a master server & media server? 3)What is volume pools & volume Groups?

4)What is media multiplexing? AnswerThe process of sending concurrent-multiple backups from one or more clients to a single storage device and interleaving those images onto the media. 5)What does these status codes mean- 216, 256,298,50? 6)What is the process of importing images and why do we import images? 7)What does it mean by inventoring a robot? 8) What is avrd ? AnswerThe automatic volume recognition daemon on UNIX and process on Windows 9) What is bpadm? AnswerAn administrator utility that runs on NetBackup UNIX servers. It has a character-based, menu interface that can be run from terminals that do not have X Windows capabilities. 10)What is a frozen image ? AnswerA stable disk copy of the data prior to backup. A frozen image is created very rapidly, causing minimal impact on other applications. There are two basic types: copy-on-write and mirror. 11)What is retention period ? AnswerThe length of time that NetBackup keeps backup and archive images. The retention period is specified on the schedule.

12)What is tape spanning ? Using more than one tape to store a single backup image. 13)What is TLD,TLH,TLM,TL4,TL8? TLD-Tape Library DLT TLH-Tape Library Half-inch TLM-Tape Library Multimedia TL4-Tape Library 4MM TL8-Tape Library 8MM 14) What is the full form of DLT? Answer-Digital-linear tape or tape drive type. 15)What is image expiration and volume expiration? Image ExpirationThe date and time when NetBackup stops tracking a backup image. Volume ExpirationThe date and time when the physical media (tape) is considered to be no longer usable. 16)Commanline to shutdown netbackup services on Windows Server? Answer-bpdown 17) Which command is used to produce a report on Status of

Netbackup Images? Answer-bpimagelist 18) What is the use of command vmupdate? Answer-Inventory the media contents of a robotic library. 19) Commandline for Creating a copy of backups created by NetBackup? Answer-bpduplicate ========================================================= ========================================================= ========================================================= =

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