Veritas VCS-271 Exam
Administration of Veritas NetBackup 7.5 for UNIX (Page 13 )

Updated On: 9-Feb-2026

A Symantec NetBackup 7.5 master server has a Microsoft Windows policy that protects over 500 servers using the directive ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES. The backup window for this policy is between 3:00 PM and 5:00 PM and is unshared with any other policy.
When the backup window for this policy is open, the overall performance of the disk storage unit gets degraded.
Which setting should the administrator modify to reduce the number of concurrent streams writing to the disk storage unit to 10 during the backup window?

  1. Disable multiplexing on the policy schedules
  2. Set the "Maximum backup copies" host property to 10
  3. Enable multiplexing for the storage unit and set the value to 10
  4. Enable the "Limit Jobs per policy" attribute

Answer(s): D



A VMware policy has been configured to backup a Linux virtual machine.
What must be done to guarantee all data is flushed from memory to disk?

  1. VSS must be configured in the VM.
  2. The VM must be running the VxFS file system.
  3. The SYMCquiesce utility must be installed in the VM.
  4. Exclude swap and paging files must be unchecked.

Answer(s): C



Which two statements accurately describe a user archive operation in Symantec NetBackup 7.5? (Select two.)

  1. Restores are performed using bpcatlist and bpcatres.
  2. The archived image reduces the size of the Symantec NetBackup 7.5 catalog image database.
  3. The policy must be named user-archive.
  4. An administrator is unable to manually initiate the job from the Symantec NetBackup Administration Console.
  5. The policy backup selection list is ignored.

Answer(s): D,E



An administrator configures STU-A with the "On Demand Only" option.
When will backups write to this storage unit?

  1. When the Any Available storage unit is selected in the policy
  2. When all other storage units are unavailable
  3. When the policy specifies STU-A as an attribute
  4. When the storage unit specified in the policy is full or unavailable

Answer(s): B



How can an administrator back up application data that resides on a hardware disk array without affecting CPU or disk resources?

  1. enable the "Perform snapshot backup" policy attribute, choose the vxvm Snapshot method, and select the "Perform off-host backup" attribute
  2. enable the "Perform snapshot backup" policy attribute, choose the auto Snapshot method, and select the "Perform off-host backup" attribute
  3. enable the Master Server Property - Client Attribute "Enable Windows Open File Backups" to use Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS)
  4. enable the Master Server Property - Client Attribute "Enable Windows Open File Backups" to use Veritas Snapshot Provider (VSP) with a Global Drive Snapshot

Answer(s): B






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