A customer has been performing full backups of their SharePoint farm to an Avamar server. They
have installed the Avamar SharePoint backup client without the GLR feature. They want to
perform a restore of only one web application, but do not want to take any of the SharePoint farm
servers offline. What should be done?

A customer is successfully backing up 50 virtual machines (VMs) hosted on two ESX hosts. There
are two datastores and two proxy servers used for VADP-based backups. They deploy another
proxy server to backup 10 new VMs residing on a new datastore. The backups for the new VMs
failed with the following error:
Event Code: 30931 – Failed to initiate a backup or restore of a virtual machine because no proxy
was found to service the virtual machine. What caused this error?

A customer has setup their EMC Celerra to backup through an Avamar NDMP Accelerator Node.
They are not seeing any increased performance since the initial backup. They have investigated
the Celerra and there are no outstanding issues.
What is a potential reason for the poor backup performance?

An EMC customer is using NetWorker with integrated Avamar deduplication nodes. They have
expired a large amount of data on the NetWorker server. After several hours, they notice that the
index entries have been deleted from NetWorker. However, data has not been removed from the
deduplication node. What is a potential reason?

An existing EMC Avamar customer has noticed that garbage collection is not running properly on
a daily basis. The garbage collection logs show the process failing with the MSG_ERR_FULL error
each time it attempts to run. The Avamar Administrator reports the server capacity as 96%.What
could be causing garbage collection to fail?

An EMC customer has received a warning indicating that their Avamar server has crossed the
80% capacity threshold. Backups are completing within the backup window and there have been
no recent increases in the client change rates. Maintenance processes are running successfully
and garbage collection is freeing up space at its expected rate.
What is the best course of action to take at this time?

An EMC Avamar customer has a large virtual machine (VM) with a small backup window
available. On the weekends, there is a larger backup window available. Most of the files on the VM
do not change daily but the few that do change are critical.
How can the customer protect the critical files every day without exceeding the daily backup
window while still meeting their SLAs to protect the entire VM image?

When using an EMC Avamar to backup an Oracle database, an error similar to the following is
received:

What is the likely cause for these errors?

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A current EMC Avamar customer is having trouble completing replication on a nightly basis. The
customer’s networking team sees that Avamar is only utilizing about 40% of the available
bandwidth on their 45 Mb WAN link. The latency or round trip time on the WAN link is 78 ms. The
customer would like to tune Avamar replication to use more of the available bandwidth
What is the Bandwidth Delay Product for this link?

An EMC Avamar customer has a two-node Microsoft Exchange 2003 cluster with one instance of
Microsoft Exchange. They are backing up the storage groups only. To ensure successful backups
of the Exchange data, what is the order for installation?