VCS-279 Veritas Administration of Veritas NetBackup 8.1.2 and NetBackup Appliances 3.1.2 Free Practice Exam Questions (2025 Updated)
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Backup jobs end with the following series of messages in the Job Details:
Error bpbrm (pid=41876) db_FLISTsend failed: Unable to connect to the database (2505)
12/05/2013 15:39:45 - job 63389 was restarted as job 63390
Failed to get status code information (2505)
Which process is failing to respond?
Which utility is least helpful when troubleshooting network connectivity issues that exist between a media server and a client?
How can an administrator locate NetBackup job activity using the appliance interfaces?
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? (Choose two.)
An administrator observes intermittent connectivity issues between the appliance and clients.
Which NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu (CLISH) command can the administrator use to assist in diagnosing the problem?
Which action is performed by the NetBackup deduplication plug-in?
Which authentication method should an administrator run as a command in the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu (CLISH), under Settings > Security > Authentication, to configure and manage Network Information Service (NIS) user registration?
Refer to the Exhibit.
An administrator is trying to access client properties on the NetBackup Administration Console and receives the following message:
When checking the services on the master server, the administrator sees that the PBX service is down.
Which two commands can the administrator use to increase the PBX log level to determine the reason for the message above? (Choose two.)
Which configuration file should an administrator modify to seed the local fingerprint caching configuration on a NetBackup MSDP client?
How can an administrator determine the storage and database paths for an MSDP?
Backups are failing with status code 96 because tapes have NOT returned to the scratch volume pool after all the images on the tapes have expired.
What may be preventing the media from returning to the scratch pool?
Which feature is enabled after adding a master server to the Trusted Master Servers tab?
An administrator is configuring a new device and receives the following error message:
Unable to determine robot type
What are two possible solutions? (Choose two.)
Which supported step should an administrator perform to ensure all operating system logs are sent from an appliance to a central logging server running Linux?
An administrator navigates to NetBackup Management > Catalog, and selects Action: Import. After clicking the Search Now button, the following message appears:
INF - Found no images matching the selection criteria that were ready for phase 2 import.
Which step must the administrator perform in order to get search results?
What is the certificate deployment and management behavior when the security level is set to High?
An administrator took media server mediaA offline for maintenance and set up a new media server mediaB with access to the previously backed up data. When restores are performed for data that was backed up by mediaA, the restores fail.
Which setting must the administrator modify to allow successful restores?
What is the Certificate Authority (CA) for NetBackup?
Which command should an administrator run on each appliance as part of completing the pre-upgrade tasks?
Refer to the exhibit.
Two media servers, sharing a library with 6 tape drives, exist in the NetBackup environment 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?
