Veritas NetBackup 8.3: Administration (NBA83) – Outline

Detailed Course Outline

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