Veritas VCS-278 Exam
Administration of Veritas NetBackup 8.1.2 (Page 6 )

Updated On: 19-Jan-2026

To reduce network use by limiting the number of parallel backup streams, which cloud setting should be modified under the Scalable Storage host property?

  1. Metering > Metering interval
  2. Network Connections > Maximum concurrent jobs
  3. Throttling > Total available bandwidth
  4. Throttling > Sampling interval

Answer(s): B



What happens if the “Maximum data streams” property is enabled in the General tab of Client Attributes for a particular client?

  1. NetBackup ignores “Maximum concurrent jobs” per storage unit and uses either “Limit jobs per policy” or “Maximum data streams", whichever is lowest.
  2. NetBackup ignores “Maximum jobs per client” and uses either “Maximum data streams” or “Limit jobs per policy", whichever is lowest.
  3. NetBackup ignores “Maximum concurrent jobs” per storage unit and uses “Maximum jobs per client” or the “Limit jobs per policy”, whichever is lowest.
  4. NetBackup ignores “Limit jobs per policy” and uses either “Maximum data streams” or “Maximum jobs per client”, whichever is lowest.

Answer(s): B



A tape library had the robot firmware upgraded, and now the robot is reading the barcodes with additional characters.

How should an administrator enable NetBackup to use the same characters that were used before the firmware upgrade?

  1. update the Media ID Generation setting
  2. update Media settings
  3. update the device mapping files
  4. update the Barcode Rules setting

Answer(s): A



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

  1. NetBackup Administration Console > Security Management > Global Security Settings > Secure Communication tab.
  2. NetBackup Administration Console > Host Properties > Master Servers > Access Control
  3. NetBackup Administration Console > Host Properties > Master Servers > Firewall
  4. NetBackup Administration Console > Security Management > Global Security Settings > Access Management

Answer(s): A


Reference:

https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/doc/127786665-127786824-0/v127786715-127786824



An administrator has a Linux client that has a backup job failing with the following error message:



Which step should the administrator perform to ensure the backup job completes successfully?

  1. check the firewall settings to ensure NetBackup ports are open.
  2. edit the "Client read timeout" setting in the master server Host Properties.
  3. edit the "Client connect timeout" in the master server Host Properties.
  4. add a SERVER entry for the media server in the client's bp.conf file.

Answer(s): B



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