VCS-276 Administration of Veritas NetBackup 8.0 Questions and Answers

An administrator has a master server running over 50,000 jobs per day.

What can the administrator do to reduce the load on the master server?

Which command can an administrator execute on a NetBackup client to measure backup performance?

Which NetBackup 8.0command is used to report the potential free space of AdvancedDisk storage units?

What is the state of the catalog backup media after successful completion of a catalog recovery using the Catalog Recovery Wizard?

Which operation compares the contents of an image to the NetBackup catalog?

A NetBackup administrator configures a policy to perform file system backups of multiple client systems using the Allow multiple data streams feature. All other policy attributes are at default settings.

Which Master Server parameter must be configured to enable the backup jobs from a client to run concurrently?

Which command can an administrator run to test and analyze connections between master servers, media servers, and clients for multiple Net Back up ports?

An administrator has a MS-Windows type policy that has failed for a Microsoft Windows NetBackup client. The policy uses the ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES backup selection. See the extract from the end of the job details below:

Which two logs will provide the most relevant information for troubleshooting and resolving the error? (Select two.)

Which two appliance performance scenarios benefit from seeding the MSDP pool? (Select two.)

Which information is validated during an image verification operation?

A NetBackup policy is configured to back up the following paths for a client:

D:\stage

E:\data

E:\home

F:\production

Multistreaming is enabled for the backups, and multiplexing is set to 4. Backup streams are running slowly.

Which step should the administrator consider to improve backup performance?

Refer to the exhibit.

A backup job configured with a retention level of 2 and Policy volume pool set to the server_tapes is failing due to status code 96: Unable to allocate new media for backup. See the output of the available_media command below:

Which task in the NetBackup Administration Console should the administrator perform to resolve the status code 96 error?

Refer to the exhibit.

A backup policy uses a Full Backup schedule with a schedule type of Frequency: 1 days. The start window for the schedule is configured as shown in the exhibit:

The administrator runs a manual backup at 10:00 on Thursday.

When would the next backup run, if all prior backups completed successfully?

Which two schedule types are allowed for the NBU-Catalog policy type? (Select two.)

An administrator discovers that backup images configured with a fixed two-week retention are failing to expire.

What is a possible cause of this issue?

Backup jobs end with the following series of messages in the Job Details:

Error bpbrm(pid= ) db_FLISTsend failed: Unable to connect to the database (2505)

12/05/2013 15:39:45 - job 63389 was restarted as job 63390

Failed to get status code information (2505)

Which process is failing to respond?

An administrator has backups failing with status code 96 due to tapes being prevented from returning to the scratch volume pool after the images they contain expire.

What prevented the media from returning to the scratch pool?

An administrator wants to review the throughput of backup clients to improve performance.

Which area of the NetBackup Administration Console displays the throughput of backups for all clients?