Veritas NetBackup 10.0 Administration

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Course Overview

Acquire the skills to make your data protection strategy successful with the Veritas NetBackup 10.0: 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 and restore operations, and ensure that the data recovery objectives are met.

Who Should Attend

This course is intended for technical professionals responsible for the design, configuration, operation, monitoring, or support of NetBackup.

Course Objectives

    • Describe the functions of the Primary server, Media servers, and clients.
    • Describe how NetBackup backs up and restores data.
    • Use the NetBackup Administration Console, Web User Interface, and OpsCenter.
    • Configure and manage NetBackup security certificates.
    • Configure, manage, and Monitor BasicDisk and AdvancedDisk 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.
    • Provision storage and configure MSDP.
    • Manage NetBackup cloud backups and cloud storage.
    • Optimize file system backups with NetBackup Accelerator.
    • Backup, restore, and protect virtual environments like VMware.
    • Configure Storage Lifecycle Policies (SLPs) and initiate jobs that use SLPs.
    • Protect and manage the NetBackup catalog.
    • Configure NetBackup WORM protection.
    • Optimize NetBackup for performance.
    • Generate NetBackup reports in NetBackup, OpsCenter, and NetBackup IT Analytics.
    • Initiate NetBackup upgrades using VxUpdate.
    • Identify and use resources for troubleshooting NetBackup.

Course Outline

Introducing NetBackup

  • Data Protection and the NetBackup Environment
  • NetBackup and Flex Appliances: Overview
  • NetBackup Integrated Solutions
  • NetBackup Installation
  • NetBackup Administration Interfaces

Working with the NetBackup Web UI

  • NetBackup Web User Interface
  • Configuring NetBackup for Single Sign-On
  • Protecting Workload Assets
  • Managing Role-based Access Control
  • Alerts and Notifications
  • Managing User Sessions

Performing NetBackup Certificate Administration

  • Understanding Security Certificates
  • Working with Certificate Revocation Lists
  • Configuring NetBackup Security Certificates
  • Managing NetBackup Security Certificates
  • Using External Security Certificates with NetBackup

Configuring Basic and Advanced Disk Storage

  • NetBackup Storage Device Concepts
  • Configuring a BasicDisk Storage Unit
  • Configuring AdvancedDisk
  • Managing AdvancedDisk Storage
  • Configuring Storage Unit Groups

Configuring NetBackup Policies and Schedules

  • Backup Policies: Overview
  • Creating and Configuring Policy Attributes
  • Creating a Policy Schedule
  • Adding Clients to a Policy
  • Creating Backup Selections
  • Exclude and Include Lists
  • Managing Policies

Protecting File Systems

  • Performing Manual Backup Operations
  • Using and Customizing the NetBackup Activity Monitor
  • Performing User-directed Backups
  • Backup Job-related Tips
  • Introduction to Restores
  • Performing Restore Operations Using the NetBackup Web UI
  • Performing Restore Operations Using the BAR interface

Configuring Media Server Deduplication

  • Introduction to MSDP
  • Variable-Length Deduplication
  • MSDP Architecture
  • Planning a Deployment
  • Provisioning Storage and Configuring MSDP

Configuring Cloud Storage

  • Using the Cloud with NetBackup
  • MSDP Cloud Support
  • Memory-efficient Dedup Service
  • MSDP Cloud Immutable (WORM) Storage
  • Image Sharing using MSDP Cloud

Optimizing Filesystem Backups

  • File System Backup Challenges
  • Optimizing File System Backups
  • Optimizing File System Backups with NetBackup Accelerator
  • NetBackup FlashBackup
  • Using multiple Data Streams
  • Handling Busy Files on UNIX/Linux and Windows File Systems

Protecting VMware Environments

  • Introduction to Virtual Machine Backups
  • Configuring VMware Backups
  • Continuous Data Protection for VMware
  • Performing and Monitoring VMware Backups

Recovering VMware Environments

  • Performing VMware Restores
  • Instant Access and Instant Rollback for VMware
  • VMware Agentless Restores

Duplicating and Replicating Backups

  • Duplication Strategies
  • Storage Lifecycle Policy: Concepts
  • Using Storage Lifecycle Policies
  • Additional Storage Lifecycle Policy Features and Benefits

Protecting the NetBackup Catalog

  • Understanding the NetBackup Catalog
  • Managing Images
  • Protecting the NetBackup Catalog
  • Performing NetBackup Catalog Recovery
  • Maintaining the NetBackup Catalog

Mitigating Impact of Ransomware

  • Ransomware Overview
  • NetBackup Protect Against Ransomware
  • Backup Anomaly Detection
  • NetBackup Malware Tool

Generating NetBackup Reports

  • Generating Reports in NetBackup
  • NetBackup OpsCenter
  • Generating NetBackup Reports in OpsCenter
  • Generating Reports Using NetBackup IT Analytics

Upgrading and Updating NetBackup

  • NetBackup Upgrades: Overview
  • VxUpdate: Overview
  • Deployment Policy Management
  • Initiating Upgrades Using VxUpdate
  • VxUpdate: Error Codes

Collecting Logs and Diagnostic Information

  • Performing Basic NetBackup Troubleshooting
  • Identifying NetBackup Processes, Services, and Daemons
  • NetBackup Logging: Overview
  • Using Support Utilities
  • Using NetBackup Support Resources

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