NetBackup interview Questions and Answers - Top Rated list

#NetBackup interview Questions and Answers. I just described the answers as per my knowledge in a short term, if you need more details information you can go with Veritas.com for FAQ or help documents. You can find more detailed. 1. What is User Backup,User Archive & How to take? Ans: User initiated backup from Backup Archive and restore window of the client interface....

Netbackup Cheat Sheet

Master Server Daemons/Processes Request daemonbprd Schedulerbpsched (started with bprd) Netbackup database managerbpdbm (started with bpsched) Job Monitorbpjobd (started with bpdbm) Media Server Daemons/Processes Communications daemonbpcd Backup and restore managerbpbrm...

NetBackup 7.x Backup Process Flow: Step 1-17 process explained in detail

NetBackup 7.x Backup Process Flow 1. When a PolicyClient task has its timer expire (indicating that it is due to run) an internal job task is created within nbpem that sends a Job Start to nbjm for the job which is due. nbpem provides to nbjm the parameters indicated...

Available Backup Types in Netbackup (Types of Backup)

1. Full BackupIs the starting point of all the backups, contains all the data in the folders and files that are selected to be backed up. Advantages: Restore is fastDisadvantages: Backup is slow and consumes more space.2. Differential IncrementalTakes the backup of the files changed since the latest backup.  Archive bit is reset. Backup is taken based on the time st...

NetBackup Tutorial: Steps to verify device configuration using "robtest"

NetBackup Tutorial: Steps to verify device configuration using "robtest" The process to absolutely verify that the drive path mapping is correct on all of the media servers is a bit time consuming, but will ensure that everything is correct.  Step 1  Please note...

Veritas NetBackup - Step by Step Whitepaper for Configuring VMware Backup Policy

Today i'm going to explain how to configure your VMware integration or backup policy in Veritas Netbackup in a simple and straight way. This Article provides the step by step process of Netbackup VADP configuration, credentials adding for different Virtual machine servers for...

Prerequisites and Must know Configure or integrate Online Database backup for SAP HANA Online Database

SAP HANA Online Database Backup integration/Configuration Backup Types: The Data Protector SAP HANA integration provides online backup of the SAP HANA database and the SAP HANA redo logs. Full: This is backup of a complete SAP HANA database. Trans: This is backup of...

Prerequisites and Must know Configure or integrate Online Database backup for SAP R/3 Online Database

SAP R/3 Online Database Backup integration/Configuration Backup Types Data Protector supports offline and online backups. During an online backup, the SAP R/3 application is actively used. Backup Types: Full (Backs up all the selected SAP R/3 objects.) Incr...

Prerequisites and Must know Configure or integrate Online Database backup for Oracle Server Online Database

Oracle Server Online Database Backup integration/Configuration Backup Types: Using the Data Protector Oracle integration, you can perform the following types of backups: Online backup of a whole database or parts of it Online incremental backup (Oracle differential...

Prerequisites and Must know Configure or integrate Online Database backup for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010+ integration

Microsoft Exchange Server 2010+ Database Backup integration/Configuration Backup Types: During backup, databases can be used actively (online backup). In DAG environments, you can back up active and/or passive database copies. You can select among the following Microsoft...

Prerequisites and Must know Configure or integrate Online Database backup for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 integration

Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Database Backup integration/Configuration  Below details are captured as per Data Protector backup tool: Backup Types: Full database backup: Includes all data (database and all log files) regardless of the changes made...

Prerequisites and Must know Configure or integrate Online Database backup for SharePoint Server 2007/2010/2013 integration

SharePoint Server 2007/2010/2013 integration   Below details are captured as per Data Protector backup tool: Microsoft SharePoint Server objects (objects): The configuration database The Central Administration content database Web applications Search...

Prerequisites and Must know Configure or integrate Online Database backup for Microsoft SQL Server

Microsoft SQL Server integration  Below details are captured as per Data Protector backup tool: Available Backup Types: Full database backup Transaction log backup Differential database backup ...

Prerequisites and Must know Configure or integrate Online Database backup with IBM DB2 Universal Database Server (DB2 Server)

DB2 UDB integration  Below details are captured as per Data Protector backup tool: Data Protector integrates with IBM DB2 Universal Database Server (DB2 Server) to back up DB2 database objects online and offline. Available Backup Types: Full, Incremental,...

Veritas NetBackup Commands by Type - with explanation

NETBACKUP COMMANDS: Here again i'm listing some common used commands by NetBackup admin after my earlier Must Know Commands, You can go through below tables by section of each component. Listed commands by: CONFIGS DEVICES SERVICES MEDIA JOBS CLIENTS POLICES ...

Netbackup (CLI) Important Commands (Useful Commands) and Explanations

Being a NetBackup backup administrator we should know minimum commands to manage our regular tasks with a simple CLI commands, here I listed few which should know by every NetBackup administrator. Master Server 1) Check the license details/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/get_license_key 2)...

NetBackup: Install Client Software in Veritas NetBackup (Symantec) – Windows OS

NetBackup client must be installed on the computer before creating a backup policy, client software can be installed by locally (CD ROM)  or remotely via network. Here is the small tutorial about installing client on Windows 2003 server. Run browser.exe from...

NetBackup: Create Backup Policy in Veritas NetBackup (Symantec) – Verify Windows or Unix Policy

Backup policy has to be created to backing up the client data over the network, before crating a policy; install Symantec NetBackup 7.5 client on remote machine. While doing the post configuring it might ask you to create data backup policy or you can create...