Veritas NetBackup 8.3: Administration
Duration: 5 Days (40 Hours)
Veritas NetBackup 8.3: Administration Course Overview:
The Veritas NetBackup 8.3: Administration Training & Certification course is designed to provide participants with the knowledge and skills necessary to effectively administer and manage the Veritas NetBackup software.
During the course, participants will learn about the general principles of data protection, as well as the configuration and management of NetBackup. They will explore how to utilize the various tools and interfaces provided by NetBackup to optimize backup operations and ensure that data recovery objectives are met.
Key topics covered in the course include backup and restore concepts, configuring storage units and storage devices, managing backup policies and schedules, monitoring and reporting on backup operations, and troubleshooting common issues that may arise in the NetBackup environment.
Intended Audience:
This course is intended for technical professionals responsible for the design, configuration, operation, monitoring, or support of NetBackup.
After completing 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.
• 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 related to failing jobs.
• Configure and manage AdvancedDisk storage units and disk pools.
• Configure tape-based devices and volume pools;
perform a robot inventory.
• Describe the various methods of backup image duplication.
• Describe MSDP cloud support and duplicate backups from local MSDP storage to MSDP cloud.
• Backup, restore and protect virtual environments like VMware and Hyper-V.
• Configure Storage Lifecycle Policies (SLPs) and initiate jobs that use SLPs.
• Manage the NetBackup catalog.
• Optimize NetBackup for performance.
• Generate NetBackup reports.
Introducing NetBackup
• Data Protection and the NetBackup Environment
• NetBackup licensing models
• NetBackup Appliance overview
• Using the NetBackup Administration Console
• Installing NetBackup
Labs:
• Exercise A: Creating web service user and group on NetBackup master server
• Exercise B: Installing NetBackup master server software
• Exercise C: Installing NetBackup Java Remote
Administration Console
• Exercise D: Installing NetBackup media server software
• Exercise E: Installing NetBackup client software
• Exercise F: Exploring the NetBackup Administration
Console
• Exercise G: Viewing NetBackup Host Properties
NetBackup Web UI
• NetBackup Web User Interface
• Managing role-based access control
• Configuring NetBackup for Single Sign-On
• Configuring storage
• Managing credentials
• Protecting workload assets
• Monitoring and notifications
• Managing user sessions
Labs:
• Exercise A: Accessing and navigating the NetBackup web user interface
• Exercise B: Configuring role-based access control
• Exercise C: Configuring NetBackup for Single Sign-On
• Exercise D: Viewing and configuring notifications
• Exercise E: Managing user sessions
NetBackup Storage
• NetBackup storage device concepts
• Configuring and managing a basic disk storage unit
• Configuring storage unit groups
• Configuring AdvancedDisk
• Managing AdvancedDisk Storage
Labs:
• Exercise A: Viewing disk storage on a NetBackup server system
• Exercise B: Configuring a Basic Disk storage unit
• Exercise C: Identifying AdvancedDisk storage server
• Exercise D: Configuring an AdvancedDisk Disk Pool
• Exercise E: Verifying AdvancedDisk configuration
• Exercise F: Configuring a policy to write backups to AdvancedDisk storage
• Exercise G: Performing and monitoring backups to AdvancedDisk storage
• Exercise H: Monitoring and managing AdvancedDisk disk pools
• Exercise I: Configuring a storage unit group
NetBackup Policies
• Introduction to backup policies
• Creating and configuring policy attributes
• Creating a policy schedule
• Adding client to a policy
• Creating backup selections
• Managing policies
Labs:
• Exercise A: Configuring a policy to use frequency-based schedules
• Exercise B: Configuring a policy to use calendar-based schedules
• Exercise C: Copying a policy to create a new policy
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 BAR interface
• Performing restore operations using OpsCenter Operational Restore
• Restore job-related tips
Labs:
• Exercise A: Using the Activity Monitor
• Exercise B: Performing manual backups
• Exercise C: Viewing job details
• Exercise D: Deactivating and activating policies
• Exercise E: Performing user-initiated backups
• Exercise F: Becoming familiar with key restore settings in the BAR user interface
• Exercise G: Restoring client files to their original location
• Exercise H: Restoring client files to an alternate file system location
• Exercise I: Restoring client files to an alternate client system
Exercise J: Using the OpsCenter Operational Restore
feature (Optional)
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
Labs:
• Exercise A: Viewing host ID-based certificate details
• Exercise B: Manually deploying the CA certificate on a NetBackup client
• Exercise C: Manually deploying the host-id certificate on a NetBackup host
• Exercise D: Revoking host ID-based certificates
• Exercise E: Configuring External Certificate Authority (ECA) on the NetBackup Master Server
• Exercise F: Configuring a NetBackup host to use an ECA-signed certificate
• Exercise G: Disabling an external CA in a NetBackup domain
Storage Lifecycle Policies
• Duplication strategies
• Storage lifecycle policy concepts
• Using storage lifecycle policies
• Additional Storage Lifecycle Policy features and benefits
Labs:
• Exercise A: Configuring a Storage Lifecycle Policy
• Exercise B: Configuring a policy to use an SLP
• Exercise C: SLP Host Properties
• Exercise D: Viewing and monitoring SLP operations
Optimizing NetBackup
• 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
Labs:
• Exercise A: Optimizing backups using the NetBackup
Accelerator
• Exercise B: Configuring and using multiple data streams
• Exercise C: Configuring and performing multiplexed backups (Optional)
NetBackup: Upgrading and Updating
• VxUpdate overview
• Deployment Policy Management
• Initiating upgrades using VxUpdate
• VxUpdate Error Codes
Labs:
• Exercise A: Populating the repository with NetBackup packages
• Exercise B: Configuring a Deployment policy
Exercise C: Manually initiating upgrades from the master
server using VxUpdate
• Exercise D: Initiating upgrades from the client using VxUpdate
• Exercise E: Viewing the deployment job status
NetBackup Deduplication
• Introduction to MSDP
• Deduplication solutions
• MSDP architecture
• Planning your deployment
• Provisioning storage and configuring MSDP
Labs:
• Exercise A: Configuring NetBackup Media Server Deduplication
• Exercise B: Configuring a policy to use MSDP storage
• Exercise C: Performing backups to MSDP storage
• Exercise D: Configuring and using client-side deduplication
• Exercise E: Monitoring and managing NetBackup MSDP storage
NetBackup MSDP Cloud and Disaster Recovery
• MSDP Cloud Support
• MSDP Online data integrity checking
• Optimizing deduplication restores and rehydration
• Monitoring MSDP
• MSDP Disaster Recover
Labs:
• Exercise A: Configuring MSDP Cloud
• Exercise B: Duplicating backups from local MSDP
storage to MSDP Cloud
• Exercise C: Performing Disaster Recovery
• Exercise D: (Optional) Examining MSDP cloud
configuration files
• Exercise E: (Optional) Verifying Data Integrity Checks
Ransomware
• Ransomware overview
• NetBackup protection against Ransomware
• Configuring NetBackup WORM protection
Labs:
• Exercise A: Configuring NetBackup WORM storage
server instance
• Exercise B: Configuring Disk Pool and WORM Storage
Unit
• Exercise C: Configuring NetBackup Policy
• Exercise D: Understanding catalog operations on WORM image copy
Protecting VMware Environments
• Understanding VMware backups
• Performing VMware backups
• Performing VMware restores
• Instant Access for VMware
• VMware Agentless Restore
Labs:
• Exercise A: Verifying the VMware environment
Exercise B: Configuring NetBackup to perform VMware
backups
• Exercise C: Installing the NetBackup Plug-in for VMware
vSphere Web Client
• Exercise D: Configuring a VMware policy
• Exercise E: Performing and monitoring VMware virtual
machine backups
• Exercise F: Excluding disks from a VMware virtual
machine backup
• Exercise G: Managing VMware assets using the
NetBackup Web UI
• Exercise H: Managing VMware credentials using Web UI
• Exercise I: Recovering virtual machine files
• Exercise J: Recovering a VMware virtual machine disk
• Exercise K: Recovering an entire VMware virtual
machine
• Exercise L: Using NetBackup Web UI to recover a virtual
machine to alternate location
• Exercise M: Using the Instant Access for VMware (Linux
only)
NetBackup Catalog
• NetBackup catalog: Overview
• NetBackup relational databases
• Catalog backup and recovery
• Maintaining the NBDB
Labs:
• Exercise A: Running NetBackup reports
• Exercise B: Verifying, expiring, and importing backup
images
• Exercise C: Configuring and running NetBackup catalog
backups
• Exercise D: Recovering the catalogs using the NetBackup Catalog Recovery wizard
NetBackup Reporting
• Generating reports in NetBackup
• Generating reports using OpsCenter
• Generating reports using APTARE IT Analytics
Labs:
• Exercise A: Generating reports in NetBackup Admin
Console
• Exercise B: Generating reports using OpsCenter
NetBackup Integrated Solutions
• Introduction to NetBackup APIs
• NetBackup Integration with Veritas Resiliency Platform
• NetBackup Integration with Access Appliance 3340
(7.4.2)
• NetBackup Integration with Enterprise Vault
Appendix A: 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
Labs:
• Exercise A: Viewing the NetBackup services
• Exercise B: Using the nbsu and nbcplogs commands
• Exercise C: Viewing and setting debug logging
properties
• Exercise D: Enabling NetBackup legacy debug logging
• Exercise E: Viewing debug logging levels for unified logs
Appendix B: Configuring and Managing tape storage
• 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
• NetBackup device troubleshooting
• Common NetBackup device issues
• Media and device selection
• Media-related status codes
• Troubleshooting frozen and suspended media
Labs:
• Exercise A: Verifying and discovering tape devices
• Exercise B: Viewing configured tape devices
• Exercise C: Configuring tape devices
• Exercise D: Configuring volume pools
• Exercise E: Configuring media
• Exercise F: Viewing tape drive and robot configuration settings
• Exercise G: Using the Device Monitor to monitor and manage tape drives
• Exercise H: Managing media
• Exercise I: Using the robtest utility
• Exercise J: Running NetBackup reports from the command line
• Exercise K: Media state management using the command line
Appendix C: Protecting Hyper-V Environments
• Introduction to NetBackup for Hyper-V
• Configuring Hyper-V backups
• Performing and Monitoring Hyper-V backups
• Performing Hyper-V restores
• Performing Hyper-V restores with the NetBackup Add-in
for SCVMM
Labs:
• Exercise A: Configuring NetBackup communication with Hyper-V
• Exercise B: Configuring a Hyper-V Intelligent Policy and backing up Hyper-V virtual machines
• Exercise C: Restoring individual files
• Exercise D: Restoring the full Hyper-V machine
• Exercise E: Performing Hyper-V backups and restores in an SCVMM environment
Appendix D: Instant Recovery for VMware
• Using VMware Instant Recovery
VMware Instant Recovery: Differences
• VMware Instant Recovery: Process
• Working with the NetBackup plug-in in vSphere Web
Client
• Instant Recovery Cleanup
• Executing the nbrestorevm command
Labs:
• Exercise A: Verifying the VMware environment
• Exercise B: Performing non-NetBackup pre-requisite tasks for IRV
• Exercise C: Performing NetBackup pre-requisite tasks for IRV
• Exercise D: Performing Instant Recovery for VMware (IRV) using the vSphere Web Client
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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