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Netbackup Interview Questions
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Differential Incremental Backup
Commulative Incremental Backup
User Backup
User Archive
Full Backup
NetBackup Media Server - Manages backups and restores of Client and the Media Server's local data to direct attached or
SAN-attached storage (tape/disk).
5) What does these status codes mean- 216, 256, 298, 50?
8) What is avrd ?
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The automatic volume recognition daemon on UNIX and process on Windows
9) What is bpadm?
Answer-
An 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.
Volume Expiration-
The date and time when the physical media (tape) is considered to be no longer usable.
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?
In the NetBackup (tm) administration GUI, select Media and Device Management | Devices | Robots, then select the robot in
question, right-click and select Change, click Browse to detect and select the new device path, and finally click OK to close
the Change Robot window.
With the new definition in place, stop and start the Device Manager service and then verify that the control for the drives has
changed from automatic volume recognition (AVR) to the appropriate setting (i.e. TLD, TL8, etc.).
1. The Removal Storage Service was running on the server, stopped this service.
2. RAn Configuration Wizard and the wizard detected all drives and Tape Robots.
3. Moves tape drives into tape libraries.
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>
Flash backup is like a raw backup where it does the backup at the block level--the main difference is that it can do differentials.
The major advantage however, and the place where Veritas/Symantec recommends using Flash Backups, is when you have a
large number (millions) of small files. Flash backup will back up these files much faster since it's doing a block level backup
rather than trying to pick up each file from the file system.
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:Need to check previous last two days back catalog backup tapes and restore
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?
Bpimport command would work well here.
This would be done by tunning the number and size of buffers. NET_BUFFER_SZ, SIZE_DATA_BUFFERS,
NUMBER_DATA_BUFFERS
But could also be done by changing other parameters such as multistreaming, multiplexing, etc.
Phase 1
This is performed first and must be done on all media concerned with the backups to be imported (particularly if the backups
have spanned over several tapes). This phase recreates catalog entries for the backups by populating the media server's Media
Database (mediaDB) with the media IDs, and creating the header files of the backup images in the Image Database. After this
phase is completed, the images may be browsed for selection for Phase 2 import.
Phase 2
This may be performed on all media involved in Phase 1, or if there is a selection of backup images desired for importing (after
browsing), then the import may be done on the basis of backup IDs. This phase of the import creates the files file(s) of the
backup images in the Image Database.
Provides all the functionality of a Media Server without the ability to backup and restore data from remote clients. The SAN
Media Server is designed for data-intensive systems that require high performance access to SAN attached backup hardware.
18. How to check tape is bad?
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.