1.

What is User Backup,User

1. What is User Backup,User Archive & How to take?
2. How do you configure a client for automatic backups?
3. What's the difference between diff incr and cumulative incr?
4. How is a changed file determined on Unix?
5. When would I, or would I not, use cross mount points?
6. What is the difference between a Volume Group and a Volume Pool?
7. How do you back up the catalog? Why is this important? What do you have to do
if you don't have a catalog backup?
8. How do you recover the catalog?
9. How do you configure retention levels for a backup?
10. What is multiplexing? What are multiple data streams? Are they the same?
11 How can I recover an corrupted image?
12. What does a barcode rule do?
13. What is OTM? TIR?
14. What format does NetBackup write the tape in?
15. How does NetBackup tie together with Media Manager?
16. How do I create a Storage Unit that will only be used by one client?
17. What is the difference between the expiration date for a volume in NetBackup's
media catalog and Media Manager's volume database?
18. What is the difference between a frozen volume and a suspended volume?
19. How many Robot Control Hosts can a TLD tape library have?
20. What does the bpbkar process do? bpbrm? bpdbm? ltid? What is the AVRD
process?
21. Why is the catalog the most important component of Netbackup?
22. what is AVR mode?
23. Which is more efficient, a binary catalog or an ASCII catalog?

Set 2

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?
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?

These few might be slightly harder ...

Does NetBackup write to tape drives (No, the operating system does)
You see a backup fail with status 24, where is the most likey cause (Network issue
outside of NBU)
What are ACS/ ASCQ errors (an error code returned by a scsi device)
Can NBU cause a TAPEALERT (No)
Name a command that accesses the media database (bpmedialist)
Name a command that accesses the volume database (vmquery)
How do you set up VX logs (shouldn't be hard but few people seem to be able to do
it)
vxlogcfg -a -p 51216 -o <oid value> -s DebugLevel=<1 - 6> -s DiagnosticLevel=<1-
6>

When using vxlogview, why should you always run the command with ' -d all'
option
(Shows the Thread ID to allow tracing through the log)

What is the difference between a system backup and a user

backup?

There are two types of backup: System Backup and User Backup. In addition to the
system backups, we recommend maintaining user backups for your records. Here is
a list of differences between the two backup file types:

How Backup Files are Created:

System Backup Files created automatically by our system throughout the

day. There are no guarantees for a specific time. The System back up is only
available after there was an initial User back up.
User Backup Files created by the customer using the back-up feature in
the Hosting Control Panel's database administration tools. Alternatively, you
can upload MySQL database files to _db_backups folder on the root level of
the hosting account.

Where Backup Files are Stored

System Backup Files stored on servers inaccessible to the user, but can
still be restored through the control panel.
User Backup Files stored in the_db_backups folder on the root level of the
your hosting account.
How Backup Files are Managed:

System Backup Files managed by our system, which periodically creates

and replaces these files.
User Backup Files managed by the user. Using an FTP client, you can
download, upload, rename, and delete these files.

How Backup Files are Named:

System Back-Up Files use the database name.

User Back-Up Files use the database name. While you cannot define a
filename during the back-up process, you can rename a file once the process
is complete.

Note: You must use the appropriate filename extension when renaming any back-
up file: MySQL files use the .sql extension. SQL Server files use the .bak extension.