Course Introduction :
Acquire the skills to make your data protection strategy successful with the Veritas NetBackup 8.1.2: Administration course. You will learn the general principles, configuration, and management of NetBackup, including how to best utilize the NetBackup tools and interfaces, effectively monitor backup operations, and ensure data recovery objectives are met.
At Course Completion
By the completion of this course, you will be able to:
- Discuss the challenges of performing backups in today’s enterprise computing environments
- Describe the functions of the master server, media servers, and clients
- Diagram the NetBackup product architecture
- Define common terms used in the NetBackup product
- Describe how NetBackup backs up and restores data
- Identify NetBackup options and agents
- Use the NetBackup Administration Console, Web Interface, and OpsCenter
- Configure and manage basic disk storage units and storage unit groups
- Configure file system backup policies and schedules
- Perform manual backups and user-directed backups
- Restore files using the Java or Windows BAR interface and OpsCenter Operational Restore
- Monitor NetBackup backup and restore jobs and perform basic troubleshooting and information-gathering steps related to failing jobs
- Configure and manage AdvancedDisk storage units and disk pools
- Configure tape-based devices and volume pools; perform a robot inventory
- Manage robot and tape drive settings, including media sharing
- Monitor and manage media and media states
- Configure, run, and manage virtual machine backups using VMware
- Recover virtual machines, including using VMware Instant Recovery
- Use the integrated NetBackup vSphere Web Client Plugin for VMware
- Describe the various methods of backup image duplication
- Configure Storage Lifecycle Policies (SLPs) and initiate jobs that use SLPs
Course Outline
Module 1: Introducing NetBackup
- Data protection and the NetBackup environment
- NetBackup concepts
- NetBackup Appliance Overview
- Using the NetBackup Administration Console
- Using the NetBackup web interface
- Using NetBackup OpsCenter
Module 2: Configuring NetBackup Storage
- NetBackup storage device concepts
- Configuring and managing a basic disk storage unit
- Configuring storage unit groups
Module 3: Configuring Policies
- Introduction to backup policies
- Creating and configuring policy attributes
- Creating a policy schedule
- Adding client to a policy
- Creating backup selections
- Managing existing policies
Module 4: Performing File System Backups
- Using and customizing the NetBackup Activity Monitor
- Performing manual backup operations
- Performing user-directed backups
- Backup job-related tips
Module 5: Performing File System Restores
- Introduction to restores
- Performing restore operations using the BAR interface
- Performing restore operations using OpsCenter Operational Restore
- Restore job-related tips
Module 6: Configuring Disk Pools
- Understanding disk pools and AdvancedDisk
- Configuring AdvancedDisk
- Managing AdvancedDisk storage
Module 7: Configuring Media Server Deduplication
- Introduction to NetBackup deduplication
- Configuring NetBackup media server deduplication
- Configuring client-side deduplication
- Managing NetBackup deduplication
Module 8: Configuring Tape Storage
- Understanding Media Manager storage units
- Configuring tape devices
- Verifying tape storage
- NetBackup media concepts
- Configuring media
Module 9: Performing Virtual Machines Backups
- Introduction to virtual machine backups
- Configuring VMware backups
- Protecting VMware Assets using the web UI
- Performing and Monitoring VM Backups
Module 10: Performing Virtual Machines Restores
- Managing virtual machine restores
- Managing VMware restores
- Using VMware Instant Recovery
Module 11: Duplicating Backups Using Storage Lifecycle Policies
- Backup duplication concepts
- Storage lifecycle policy concepts
- Using storage lifecycle policies
- Additional Storage Lifecycle Policy features and benefits
Module 12: Managing and Protecting the NetBackup Catalog
- Introduction to NetBackup catalogs
- Managing images
- Configuring a catalog backup policy
- Disaster recovery strategies
Module 13: Optimizing File System Backups
- File system backup challenges
- Optimizing file system backups
- Optimizing file system backups with NetBackup Accelerator
- Using multiple data streams
- Optimizing tape drive performance using multiplexing
- Handling busy files on UNIX and Windows file systems
Module 14: Collecting Logs and Diagnostic Information
- Performing basic NetBackup troubleshooting
- Identifying NetBackup processes, services, and daemons
- NetBackup logging overview
- Using the support utilities
- Using NetBackup support resources