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[Veritas-bu] Questions to ask a Netbackup Admin on an interview *interesting*
2004-03-26 14:29:41
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[Veritas-bu] Questions to ask a Netbackup Admin on an interview *interesting* |
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jobseeker AT prodigy DOT net (Dave Rilett) |
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Josh,
Ask some non-Windows questions?
What about BLI set-up for intermediate level?
Cheers,
drilett
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[mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Goldfarb,
Josh
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Subject: [Veritas-bu] Questions to ask a Netbackup Admin on an interview
*interesting*
Please tell me if you think these questions are suitable and if you have
any additions, please let me know.
Basic:
Why is the catalog the most important component of Netbackup?
What does status 59 mean in the activity monitor?
If you have an exchange database backup with a status 1 in the activity
monitor what would you do?
On a windows box if you encountered a status 11, what is the problem?
Why is a binary catalog more efficient than an ASCII catalog?
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Intermediate:
What is BPRD?
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?
If I asked you to tell me if a client has Netbackup on it just by using
a telnet command what would you do?
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?
If an exchange server has four storage groups, how would you set it up
so that all four databases get sent to a different tape drive at the
same time?
If you have an Exchange database on box ab1 and you want to set NBU to
backup both the database and "C:\, F:\, System_state" how would you set
up the policy and or polcies to do this while using the same volume
pool?
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?
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Expert:
If you wanted to bypass netbackup commands and move a tape from slot 1
to drive 3 how would you do that?
What does this command do? Vmcheckxxx -rt tld -rn 0 brnyc-eb01 -vmhost
brnyc-eb01 -list?
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?
How do you find a disk based image via the command line and then delete
it?
>From the expert himself - Dave Chapa
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How do you import an NBU image that has been written to a disk storage
unit?
What are the critical catalogs or databases on a Media Server?
How would you tune NetBackup to increase backup performance?
Josh Goldfarb
BlackRock Financial Management Inc.
BlackRock Solutions - Technology USA
40 East 52nd Street
NY, NY 10022
Phone: 212.409.3702
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the activity monitor?</FONT> <BR><FONT face=3D"Times New Roman">If you =
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exchange database backup with a status 1 in the activity monitor what =
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encountered a status 11, what is the problem?</FONT> <BR><FONT=20
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catalog?</FONT> <BR><FONT face=3D"Times New Roman">--------</FONT> =
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face=3D"Times New Roman">Intermediate:</FONT> <BR><FONT=20
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device monitor=20
you see the drives marked as AVR, what does that mean and how would =
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<P><FONT face=3D"Times New Roman">If I asked you to tell me if a =
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Netbackup on it just by using a telnet command what would you =
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<BR><FONT face=3D"Times New Roman">If you wanted to know what IP =
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netbackup was using to perform backups what command would you run and =
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<P><FONT face=3D"Times New Roman">If an exchange server has four =
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how would you set it up so that all four databases get sent to a =
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tape drive at the same time?</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=3D"Times New Roman">If you have an Exchange database on =
box ab1=20
and you want to set NBU to backup both the database and "C:\, F:\,=20
System_state" how would you set up the policy and or polcies to do =
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using the same volume pool?</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=3D"Times New Roman">If a media ID A04567 comes back and =
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frozen, what are the steps to unfreeze it and move it back to scratch =
from the=20
command line?</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=3D"Times New Roman">----------</FONT> <BR><FONT=20
face=3D"Times New Roman">Expert:</FONT> <BR><FONT face=3D"Times New =
Roman">If you=20
wanted to bypass netbackup commands and move a tape from slot 1 to =
drive 3 how=20
would you do that?</FONT> <BR><FONT face=3D"Times New Roman">What does =
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command do? Vmcheckxxx -rt tld -rn 0 brnyc-eb01 -vmhost brnyc-eb01=20
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two days ago and the master server crashed what would you have to do =
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your environment back up to present time?</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=3D"Times New Roman">How do you find a disk based image =
via the=20
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color=3D#ff0000>From the expert himself - Dave Chapa</FONT> <BR><FONT=20
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<BR><FONT face=3DArial color=3D#000080 size=3D2>How do you import an =
NBU image that=20
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<P><I><FONT face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D2>Josh Goldfarb</FONT></I> =
<BR><I><FONT face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D2>BlackRock Financial =
Management=20
Inc.</FONT></I> <BR><I><FONT face=3D"Times New Roman" =
size=3D2>BlackRock Solutions=20
- Technology USA</FONT></I> <BR><I><FONT face=3D"Times New Roman" =
size=3D2>40 East=20
52nd Street</FONT></I> <BR><I><FONT face=3D"Times New Roman" =
size=3D2>NY, NY=20
10022</FONT></I> <BR><I><FONT face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D2>Phone: =
212.409.3702</FONT></I> </P><BR><BR>
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