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