-Are you familiar with Solaris and Linux?

-How many master servers and clients have you supported in the past?
-Are you familiar with NDMP backups?
-What are and how important are catalog backups?
-Have you ever done capacity planning?
-Have you ever participated in a disaster recovery situation and done a full rebuild
and restore of a server before?
-Can you script and what language(s)?
-How many Netbackup environments have you built before?
-Are you familiar with physical robotic tape libraries, virtual tape libraries,
Puredisk, and disk-cache backups?
-Have you ever configured Exchange, Oracle RMAN, Sybase, and MS-SQL agent
backups?
-Describe/discuss how you would troubleshoot and remediate a backup failure.
-How many ways are there to detect and report on backup failures?
-Describe how to setup backup schedules and data retentions to maximize disk and
tape space and usage.
-Have you ever managed offsite tape schedules and transfers?
-Have you ever been involved in a SOX audit?
-Have you ever written backup documentation on policies, and procedures

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 an 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

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 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 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?

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?