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Answer / santosh kori
pls give interviews question & Answer of veritas netbackup
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Answer / vamshi krishna
1) Which are the backup types that are available in
Netbackup ?
Answer-
Differential 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?
Answer-
The 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 ?
Answer-
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.
10)What is a frozen image ?
Answer-
A 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 ?
Answer-
The 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 Expiration-
The date and time when NetBackup stops tracking a backup
image.
Volume Expiration-
The 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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Answer / vani
veritas netbackup is a one of the tool , to take the data
and store the tapes ,disk etc for long time becz we r using
this tool , it works on hetrogenous environment. like
unix ,solaris,windows etc. here mainly we r using storage
units, volume pools , tapes , drive issues , backup
failures , these issues we have in our backup..
google:- veritas netbackup type like this , you find more
material their ..........
good luck.
thanks,
vani.
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Answer / ganesh
If Media Server fails.
What are the steps to be followed?
Can anyone please reply for this question
Thanks,
Ganesh
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Answer / arun
Symantec is the company which acquired Veritas, You can
visit http://www.symantec.com/business/netbackup and explore
whatever information you need.Certifications which i know are,
* Symantec Backup Exec for Windows Servers
* Symantec Enterprise Vault
* Veritas Storage Foundation for UNIX
* Veritas Storage Foundation for Windows
* Veritas Cluster Server for UNIX
* Veritas Cluster Server for Windows
* Symantec Endpoint Protection
* Veritas NetBackup for UNIX
* Veritas NetBackup for Windows
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Answer / ram
Although i recently completed my netbackup course and i don't have real time experience. I am posting the answer here:
In real time environment if the media server crashes, they rebuild the media server,install OS,install netbackup,restore the catalog.
That's all.
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Answer / seno
only what you need --> visit symantec web. Symantec is a
developer of veritas netbackup, in their side you can find
product veritas netbackup and all about veritas questions,
answers, exams etc...
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Answer / sarat
regarding veritas netbackup,like interview questions,
everything u can find in symantec.com
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