netbackup questions

1. What is errorcode 58 and trouble shooting?

58 can't connect to client may be down or no port access.

2. What is 99 errorcode and troubleshooting?

99 NDMP backup failure

3. If ndmp backup failes how do troubleshooging?

4.. How to take catalog backup?

bpbackupdb

5. How to restore catalog backup?

using bpimport command

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?

./ava*

10. How to check volume pool?

vmpool -listall

11 Media has been already expired, How to find out?

./ava*

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?

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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?
216---216 failed reading retention database information.
256 logic error encountered
298 the library is not ready to eject volumes
50 client process aborted

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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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 \u2013pn from master server to the client.
Bpcover \u2013r < 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 \u2013unfreez < 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 DB\u2019s 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.

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importing NetBackup disk images using the command line

The command line utility bpimport can also be used to import images from a disk
storage unit. This will use the "-id" option that was previously used to pass the
media ID to use for the import. However, the "-id" option now supports passing
either a disk path or a media ID.

To start a phase 1 import from the command line run the command:
# cd /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd
# ./bpimport -create_db_info -id <disk_path> -L /usr/tmp/phase1.log
Enter the disk path to use for the import. Then, monitor the /usr/tmp/phase1.log
file to monitor the progress of the phase 1 import.

To start a phase 2 import from the command line run the command:
# cd /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd
# ./bpimport -id <disk_path> -s <startdate> -e <enddate> -L /usr/tmp/phase2.log
Enter the disk path to use for the import as well as the date range for the images
to import. The format to use for the start and end dates is 'MM/DD/YYYY hh:mm:ss'.
Then, monitor the /usr/tmp/phase2.log file to monitor the progress of the phase 2
import.

Once the phase 2 import completes successfully the disk images will be available
for restores.
Notes

It will not be possible to import disk images from a NetBackup 5.x server into
NetBackup 6.0. This is due to a difference in the way disk images are handled in
NetBackup 6.0. A phase 1 import of a directory that contains NetBackup 5.x disk
images will fail with the message "INF - No importable NetBackup disk images found
in path <path name>". The activity monitor will show a Status 0 for the phase 1
import, even though no disk images are processed.

Imports from a read only filesystem are not supported. Attempts to import from a
read only filesystem will result in an "invalid disk header file" error.

EG:-

Phase1
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpimport -create_db_info -id D0003 -server
megatron -L /tmp/bpimport.phase1 &

Generate image list:

/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpimport -PM -s 01/01/71 00:00:00 -e 09/20/01
23:59:59 -id D0003 | awk '{print $5}' > /tmp/import_list

Phase2
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpimport -Bidfile /tmp/import_list -L
/tmp/bpimport.phase2 &

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HOW TO INCREASE SAN SPEED

DATA_BUFFER_SIZE = 262144
NUMBER_DATA_BUFFER = 128
NET_BUFFER_SZ = 2097152

At least we want minimum of 80 mb/sec, or 90 mb/sec, or even more............ (our

Tape writing speed is 80mb/sec)

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SOL interview question

1) What file do you modify to change the mail aliases (Provide the full
path) ?
2) What command do you run after modifying the aliases file make the
changes active?
3) How do you enable logging on a UFS file system?
4) What commands can you use to dynamically add scsi disks to a sun
system?
5) How do you install package to a specific directory? e.g like to
install wget in /home/vin/wget rather than the default one "/usr". ----
This was not answered by me.
6) What command shows what modules are loaded into the Kernel?
7) What command increases the priority of a process and all sub
processes on a solaris system?
8) What command in Solaris, do you use to setup aliases for devices?
9) How do you watch network traffic on interface qfe3?
10 ) What command shows TCP/IP parameter settings?
11) How do you set Network cards to 100 full interactively &
permanently?
12) What tools in Solaris help you diagnose harware failures?
13) How do you determine by how much a Veritas Volume can be expanded?
14) How do you grow a Veritas VXVM volume?
15) Where is the dump from a system crash normally kept? Can we
customize it?
16) How do you determine Volume Status in Veritas VxVM?
17) Why would you deport a diskgroup in VxVM?
18) How do you create additional state databases in solaris volume
manager? -- This was the tough one..!!
19) Does Solaris Volume Manager have soft partitioning?
20) How do you clear volume information from a solaris volume manager
disk?
21) How do you shutdown a Veritas Cluster Server, leaving the
applications running from the command line?
22) How do you speed up processing of a process and All it's child
processes? -- This was quite tricky..!!

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These are some of the L3 level unix interview questions\u2026

1. How do you replace a failed boot disk under meta in solaris? Step by step
explanation?

2. How do you remove meta only for the root slice? remaining slices should run
under meta?

3. what you would do if you want to replace a slice using metareplace option?

4. what is the significance of 51% state database replicas in SVM?

5. what are the common errors you find in Solaris Volume manager?

6. You have a boot disk under svm, the machine fails to boot and remains in ok
prompt? what could be the possible reason?

7. metastat -p shows a metavolume needs replacement. Metavolume is a single way

mirror only. Actually you find disk and metavolumes are ok and I/O is happening to
the filesystems\u2026 how will you remove the metareplace message that comes out of
metastat.

8. How to create a shared disk group in VxVM?

9. What is the difference between private and public regions in Veritas Volume
manager?
10. what would you do if the private region of a particular disk group is full?
What are the design considerations for the size of private region in Vxvm disk
group?

11. How to replace a corrupt private region? in vxvm 3.5 and greater versions\u2026

12. How would you convert a volume from gen to fsgen? why should you do that?

13. How can you unencapsulate a boot disk in VxVM?

14. How to identify multiple paths for a disk.

15. What is the difference between Vxdmp and EMC powerpath?

16. vxdisk -o alldgs list o/p shows some disk groups in braces\u2026 What does that
signify?

17. what are the various layouts that are available in VxVM?

18.What is a layered volume? how to create it using vxmake?

19.How to quickly mirror a volume, if the volume is empty?

20. How to grow a volume?

21. What is the difference between failing and failed disks?

22. How to replace a failed disk in Veritas?

23. Plex is in a disabled state. How will you recover? what are the steps to
follow?

24.what is the difference between detached and disassociate state of plexes?

25. Whats the boot process of VxVM?

26. Whats the difference between SVM and VxVM? What would you recommend to your
clients? why?

27.What are the various clusters you have worked on?

28. Which cluster is better VCS or Sun cluster?

29. Compare and contrast VCS and Sun Cluster.

30.how will you start VCS service? What are the configuration files in VCS?

31. How would switch a service group?

32. How would you freeze a service group?

33. What is a Split brain scenario ?

How to find the kernel bit version or architecture

isainfo -kv