1) Which are the backup types that are available in Netbackup ?

Answer-Differential Incremental BackupCommulative Incremental BackupUser BackupUser

ArchiveFull 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 clientsto 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 inventorying a robot?8) What is avrd ?Answer-The automatic

volume recognition daemon on UNIX and process on Windows9) What is bpadm?Answer-An
administrator utility that runs on NetBackup UNIX servers. It has acharacter-based,menu
interface that can be run from terminals that do not have X Windowscapabilities.10) What is
a frozen image ?Answer-A stable disk copy of the data prior to backup. A frozen image is
createdvery rapidly, causing minimal impact on other applications. There are twobasic
types: copy-on-write and mirror.

11) What is retention period ?Answer-The length of time that NetBackup keeps backup and
archive images. Theretentionperiodis 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 DLTTLH-Tape Library Half-inchTLM-Tape Library
MultimediaTL4-Tape Library 4MMTL8-Tape Library 8MM14) 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 nolongerusable.16) Commanline to shutdown netbackup services on Windows
Server?Answer-bpdown17) Which command is used to produce a report on Status
of Netbackup Images?Answer-bpimagelist18) 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