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The document discusses various NetBackup concepts including: - The different backup types including differential incremental, cumulative incremental, full, and user backups. - The roles of a master server and media server. - Volume pools, volume groups, and media multiplexing which sends concurrent backups to a single storage device. - The meaning of various status codes and terms like importing images, inventorying a robot, and automatic volume recognition daemon.

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Netbackup Questions

The document discusses various NetBackup concepts including: - The different backup types including differential incremental, cumulative incremental, full, and user backups. - The roles of a master server and media server. - Volume pools, volume groups, and media multiplexing which sends concurrent backups to a single storage device. - The meaning of various status codes and terms like importing images, inventorying a robot, and automatic volume recognition daemon.

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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?

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 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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