Veritas VCS-284 Dumps (V8.02) – Help You Successfully Achieve Your Veritas NetBackup 10.x Administrator Certification Goals

1. Which volume pool holds cleaning media?

2. An MSDP Media Server is experiencing performance issues when running multiple deduplication backup jobs concurrently over 10 GbE. When switched to AdvancedDisk on the same Media Server, the backups perform well.

Which step can be utilized to mitigate the performance issues?

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

4. An administrator is performing a backup and receives the following error message: 129 Message: Disk storage unit is full.

Which Netbackup command should the administrator use to report the potential free space of AdvancedDisk storage units?

5. Which command should an administrator use to determine which storage lifecycle policy's image copies are incomplete?

6. Which command should an administrator run to display all images written to both disk and tape for a particular client?

7. When NetBackup makes more than one image copy simultaneously during the backup, it is called _____________.

8. Where can an administrator add or list the service providers for cloud storage?

9. The 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?

10. An administrator needs to recover the NetBackup master server catalog at a disaster recovery site, but the DR files are unavailable.

Which command should the administrator use to recreate the DR file?

11. A restore has failed with the following job details:

Which two resources should the administrator use to troubleshoot this issue? (Select two)

12. 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?

13. Which of the following is not a selection type of storage unit groups?

14. An administrator is working with a Linux media server and has received a status code 80 with the following error message: Media Manager device daemon (ltid) is not active After attempting to start the daemon ltid manually, the administrator continues to receive the same error.

Which configuration file should the administrator change to enable VERBOSE level to this daemon (ltid)?

15. Refer to the exhibit.

Two media servers, sharing a library with 10 tape drives, exist in the NetBackup 8.0environment displayed in the exhibit. Both weekly full and daily differential incremental backups need to run for the clients and each schedule has a different retention period.

Because of network topology, some clients back up to Media Server 1 and some back up to Media Server 2. The environment suffers from multiple status 96 failures during the backup window.

How can the administrator minimize the number of failures?

16. The NetBackup Resource Broker (NBRB) maintains resource requests for jobs that are queued.

Which two criteria does NBRB use to evaluate the resource requests and provide resources to each job sequentially? (Select two.)

17. A file system on a server is corrupt and a restore is required. The system is being backed up using True Image Restore with move detection enabled.

The most recent backups of this file system are displayed below.

- Monday: A full backup

- Tuesday: A differential incremental backup

- Wednesday: A cumulative incremental backup

- Thursday: A differential incremental backup

What is the minimum number of backup images that will be used to fully restore the server?

18. What is the default length of time that true image restore (TIR) information is retained in the NetBackup catalog?

19. Which NetBackup components can be updated with VxUpdate?

20. Using the default values in the activity monitor, a failed job is discovered among hundreds of jobs that ran during the evening. The administrator would like to view all related jobs to verify they completed successfully.

Where in the activity monitor can the administrator find all related jobs?

21. An administrator needs to enable the media server to detect backup anomalies. To do this, the administrator needs to copy the NB_Anomaly.db file from the anomaly_detection folder on the primary server to the anomaly_detection folder on the media server.

On which path can the administrator locate the anomaly_detection folder in the primary server?

22. Upon arriving at work on a Monday, an administrator sees several replication Jobs that have failed with the following error message: No images were successfully processed

Which two reasons may be the cause for the error code? (Select two.)

23. An administrator has an environment that runs over one thousand jobs a night. Some nights there are hundreds of jobs queued waiting for a resource.

Which action should the administrator take in the event that specific jobs need to run when a resource next becomes available during that evening's backup session?

24. By using the robot front panel, an operator ejects media 000001 from robot TLD (1) and inserts it into robot TLD(2). Neither robot has a barcode reader.

Which two actions should the administrator in the administration console to update the EMM database accordingly and show media 000001 at the new location? (Select two.)

25. Where in the NetBackup Administration Console should an administrator look to determine whether an AdvancedDisk storage server is configured?

26. An administrator runs the following command on the Master Server to test connectivity to a client:

bptestbpcd -client clientA

The administrator receives the following message:

<16> bptestbpcd main: Function ConnectToBPCD (clientA) failed: 25 cannot connect on socket

Which two reasons may cause the error message? (Select two.)

27. Which status code applies only to disk storage units?

28. What does media sharing mean in NetBackup?

29. Which two catalog components contain information on what has been backed up and its metadata in NetBackup? (Select two.)

Media

30. An administrator has a backup for client Linux1 using the LinuxClients policy complete successfully, even though the policy Backup Selections are NOT modified, the backup job fails the next day with the following status code: Error 71: none of the files in the file list exist.

What is a possible reason the job failed?

31. Which two options are available to an administrator to bring the MSDP catalog back online in the case of a hardware problem that caused corruption? (Choose two.)

32. A restore must be performed. An administrator is attempting to view the valid images for a client, but the following error occurs: WARNING: Server does not contain any valid images.

Which two parameters may be configured incorrectly? (Select two.)

33. Which backup storage is unsupported with media server load balancing?

34. Where should an administrator look in the NetBackup Administration Console to determine whether an AdvancedDisk storage server is configured?

35. Which servers are listed when selecting the client package during the creation of a new deployment policy?

36. An administrator is using Storage Lifecycle Policies (SLP) to back up to a local Advanced Disk pool, duplicate to a local MSDP pool, replicate to an off-site MSDP pool, and finally duplicate to an off-site tape library which needs to be kept for a period of three years.

Which retention type should the administrator select for the SLP import operation?

37. An administrator is experiencing a communication issue between the master and client and believes the certificate might be revoked.

Which log can the administrator view to analyze a certificate issue?

38. When an administrator creates a duplicate copy of an image, what will the retention be for the new copy?

39. Backup jobs to an MSDP storage unit of a large EXT3 file system for a Linux client connected via a 1 GbE network are taking excessive time.

Which two settings should an administrator change to improve the performance of the backups? (Select two.)

40. Weekly full backups run for clientA on master1 using a storage unit that belongs to media1. The administrator is required to retain clientA’S full backups for a period of four months. When the administrator modifies the full schedule, an option for 4 months is missing from the Retention drop-down list.

How can the administrator add a four-month retention?

41. Where is the option to allow communication with NetBackup 8.0 and earlier hosts without certificates?

42. Some NetBackup jobs are affected by the failure of a disk in an Advanced Disk pool, but the jobs are unavailable to view in the Activity Monitor.

In which two places can the administrator view Net Backup jobs affected by the disk failure? (Select two.)

43. What is the Certificate Authority (CA) for NetBackup?

44. Which statement or statements describe the Scratch volume pool?

45. Refer to the exhibit.

An assigned backup tape contains four images, two of which are expired. A new backup is initiated.

How does NetBackup write the new image?

46. Where can an administrator change a disk pool to Down status in the NetBackup Administration Console?

47. A restore using the Java BAR is being attempted. Care has been taken to select the appropriate source client, but no backup image content is displayed.

What could be a reason for this to happen?

48. On which system(s) is the NetBackup 8.0LiveUpdate agent installed by default?

49. An administrator has a Synthetic backup that fails with a status code 1, and the error message: No images were found to synthesize (607)

Which steps should the administrator take to determine why the backup failed?

50. An organization needs to have backups span between different BasicDisk storage units. The "Allow backups to span disk" setting has been enabled in Host Properties.

Which additional requirement must an administrator meet to allow backups to span disks?

51. A NetBackup Master Server has commenced writing four long-running duplication jobs to an AdvancedDisk disk pool. The value of Maximum concurrent jobs for the storage unit and Limit I/O streams for the disk pool are both set to 4.

There are 35 jobs queued on the Master Server that require this disk pool:

- 5 replication jobs with priority 9999

- 10 backup jobs with priority 999

- 20 duplication jobs with priority 99

Two restore jobs that require this disk pool are then submitted with default priority.

Which job type goes active next?

52. An administrator configures a default Standard file system backup policy, which backs up very large file systems from a set of clients, There are multiple scheduled backup attempts configured.

How can the administrator reduce the amount of time needed to complete these backup jobs alter failures?

53. An administrator has a backup policy with the following policy attributes:

- 3 paths listed in the Backup Selections list

- 5 clients listed in the Clients list

- Allow multiple data streams is selected

- Limit Jobs per policy is set to 4

How many jobs go Active when the job is started, excluding parent jobs?

54. A UNIX client has the mount points listed below:

/var

/usr

/opt

/home

A backup policy for this client has "Allow multiple data streams" enabled and contains a backup selections list with the ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES directive. It also contains an exclude list that excludes /home.

What happens when this backup policy runs?

55. What is device serialization?

56. Which command should an administrator use to generate a list of all files backed up on a client for a specific backup job?

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

58. Which file contains LiveUpdate server configuration?

59. An Advanced Disk storage unit consistently reaches capacity, causing older, staged backups to expire.

How can the administrator control the prioritization of images that get removed?

60. Which two actions should an administrator take to allow NetBackup to manage the allocation of volumes to volume pools? (Select two.)

61. The MSDP catalog on a Media Server has become corrupted.

Which two methods are available to bring the MSDP pool back online? (Select two.)

62. When is it most appropriate to use multiple data streams?

63. Which feature is unavailable for all NetBackup cloud providers when configuring cloud storage using the Cloud Storage Server Configuration wizard?

64. Which volume pool must be manually created in NetBackup?

65. Which is the default volume pool used by catalog backup while backing up to tape?

66. Consider the configuration information for a single UNIX client displayed below.

Allow Multiple Data Streams is enabled.

ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES is specified.

Media multiplexing is set to 6.

Three tape drives are available in the storage unit and multiplex per drive is 2.

Max Jobs per Client is set to 8.

The client has five local file systems with no exclude list.

How many concurrent data streams will there be when the policy runs?

67. Which statement is false about NetBackup deduplication?

68. Which utility should an administrator use to verify tape device configuration?

69. An image of the volume past is expiration date or has reached its maximum number of mounts is no longer available for restores.

70. What is the default value of Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) mode in NetBackup?

71. NetBackup has frozen some of the tapes added to the robot.

Which log must be enabled to determine why the tapes were frozen?

72. An administrator is comparing the NetBackup Accelerator and NetBack up FlashBackup features to determine which feature should be used for backup of a very large file system with millions of files.

Which consideration is irrelevant when determining whether to use NetBackup Accelerator or Net Back up FlashUackup in the situation?

73. An administrator is creating a Standard policy with the option ''Use Accelerator'' to back up files on a Linux server.

Which two options are disabled by default in this type of policy? (Choose two.)

74. What is the default value for the data-in-transit encryption setting on the primary server after an upgrade to NetBackup 10.0?

75. 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?

76. An administrator notices that backups are failing for clients added to a new backup policy. The backups attempt to run again after 10 minutes.

How can the administrator modify the time between backup attempts?

77. Which disk type is unsupported in a Media Server Load Balancing storage unit group?

78. A job fails with the following message:

Error bpbrm (pid=5942) Cannot connect to winclient.example.com

Info bpbkar (pid=0) done. status: 58: can't connect to client

The administrator verifies the default OS host name resolution order is in place in all the environments, but finds an incorrect entry for the client in the media server's hosts file and corrects it.

The hosts file on the client is properly configured. The administrator restarts the job, but the job fails with the same error message.

Which action should the administrator perform to ensure the job completes successfully?

79. Prior to initiating a restore, an administrator realizes that media needed for the restore was written by a server that is unavailable. The administrator does have another server that can perform the restore and that is connected to the same library.

Which two commands can the administrator perform to change the server ownership, so the restore can be performed? (Choose two.)

80. 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?

81. Backups can be initiated by many methods.

Which method does not apply?

82. An administrator configures storage units STU-A and STU-B into a storage unit group in Failover mode.

If STU-A is busy, what happens to a new job going to the storage unit group?

83. Which statement applies to a NetBackup calendar based schedule in a Windows policy type?

84. A backup image on tape is due to expire in one week. The administrator needs to keep the image available for restore indefinitely.

Which two methods can be used to accomplish this goal? (Select two.)

85. Which statement describes how Catalog backups can be scheduled?

86. Which command is used to determine the state of an AdvancedDisk storage server?

87. An administrator is preparing to perform disaster recovery for many clients whose backups are stored on multiplexed tapes.

Which host property should the administrator modify, prior to the restores, to ensure the best recovery time?

88. An administrator is attempting to configure a new backup policy using synthetic backups. When creating a new full backup schedule, the Synthetic backup option is unable to be selected.

What must the administrator do to the policy to make the Synthetic backup option available for selection?

89. Which schedule can be configured as a synthetic backup in addition to the full backup schedule type?

90. Which information is validated during an image verification operation?

91. In which order should an administrator perform upgrades to a major release in a NetBackup environment?

92. Which restore method enables simplified search and retrieval across multiple NetBackup domains?

93. What should an administrator do to enable backups to span multiple BasicDisk storage units?

94. An administrator has a media server with four empty disks with the following characteristics:

SSD1, SSD2: High-speed solid state drives

Disk3, Disk4: Medium-speed hard drives

What is the recommended disk storage configuration using these devices?

95. Which two methods should an administrator use to automate duplication in NetBackup? (Select two.)

96. A NetBackup environment with a single standalone LTO5 tape drive is experiencing slow performance when restoring a small number of files from a tape with multiplexed backup images.

What should the administrator do to improve restore performance for future backups?

97. What is required to implement Auto Image Replication?

98. An administrator has a master server named master1.

When the administrator runs the bpclntcmd -pn command on the client, the administrator receives the following output:

What is a possible cause for this output?

99. A BasicDisk storage unit is 500 GB and is running out of space. The disk and file system is resized to 800 GB.

What must occur to use this new disk space?

100. Which command should an administrator use to show a list of incomplete copies of lifecycle managed images?