Veritas NetBackup 8.2: Administration

Duration: 5 Days (40 Hours)

Veritas NetBackup 8.2: Administration Course Overview:

The Veritas NetBackup 8.2: Administration course is designed to provide participants with the necessary skills to successfully implement and manage a data protection strategy using Veritas NetBackup 8.2. Throughout the course, participants will learn about the general principles, configuration, and administration of NetBackup.

Key topics covered in the course include understanding the architecture and components of NetBackup, configuring and managing backup policies and schedules, performing backup and restore operations, monitoring and reporting on backup operations, and ensuring data recovery objectives are met.

Participants will also gain practical knowledge on how to utilize the various tools and interfaces provided by NetBackup to optimize their data protection strategy. This includes exploring features such as the NetBackup Administration Console, NetBackup OpsCenter, and command-line interfaces.

By the end of the course, participants will be equipped with the skills necessary to effectively administer and monitor their NetBackup environment. They will be able to configure and manage backup policies, troubleshoot common issues, and ensure data protection and recovery objectives are met.

Intended Audience:

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

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 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.
  • Discuss other supported virtualization methods. Recover virtual machines, including using VMware Instant Recovery.
  • Use the integrated NetBackup vSphere Web Client Plug-in for VMware.
  • Describe the various methods of backup image duplication.
  • Configure Storage Lifecycle Policies (SLPs) and initiate jobs that use SLPs.
  • Manage the NetBackup catalog to search for, verify, duplicate, import, and expire backup images.
  • Back up and recover the NetBackup catalogs.
  • Optimize file system backups using incremental backups, True Image Restore, synthetic backups, NetBackup Accelerator, multiple data streams, and multiplexing.
  • Identify and use resources for troubleshooting NetBackup, including the support information gathering tools related

Introducing NetBackup
  • Introduction to data protection
  • The NetBackup environment
  • NetBackup concepts
  • Using the NetBackup Administration Console
  • NetBackup appliance overview
  • Using NetBackup OpsCenter
  • NetBackup storage device concepts
  • Configuring NetBackup basic disk storage
  • Verifying basic disk storage
  • Configuring storage unit groups
  • Introduction to backup policies
  • Creating and configuring policy attributes
  • Creating a policy schedule
  • Adding client to a policy
  • Creating backup selections
  • Managing existing policies
  • Using and customizing the NetBackup Activity Monitor
  • Performing manual backup operations
  • Performing user-directed backups
  • Backup job-related tips
  • Introduction to restores
  • Performing restore operations using the BAR interface
  • Performing restore operations using OpsCenter Operational Restore
  • Restore job-related tips
  • Understanding disk pools and AdvancedDisk
  • Configuring AdvancedDisk
  • Managing AdvancedDisk storage
  • Introduction to NetBackup deduplication
  • Configuring NetBackup media server deduplication
  • Configuring client-side deduplication
  • Managing NetBackup deduplication
  • Understanding Media Manager storage units
  • Configuring tape devices
  • Verifying tape storage
  • NetBackup media concepts
  • Configuring media
  • Managing robots and tape drives
  • Monitoring media and media states
  • Managing tapes
  • Media- and device- related tips
  • Introduction to virtual machine backups
  • Configuring VMware backups
  • Performing and Monitoring VM Backups
  • NetBackup support for other virtualization solutions
  • Managing virtual machine restores
  • Managing VMware restores
  • Using the NetBackup vSphere Web Client Plug-in
  • Using VMware Instant Recovery
  • Backup duplication concepts
  • Storage lifecycle policy concepts
  • Using storage lifecycle policies
  • Configuring optimized duplication
  • Additional Storage Lifecycle Policy features and benefits
  • Introduction to NetBackup catalogs
  • Managing images
  • Configuring a catalog backup policy
  • Disaster recovery strategies
  • 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
  • Performing basic NetBackup troubleshooting
  • Identifying NetBackup processes, services, and daemons
  • NetBackup logging overview
  • Using the support utilities
  • Using NetBackup support resources

Students should be familiar with general network and storage concepts, and the administration and configuration of Windows or Linux operating systems.

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