Veritas NetBackup 9.1: Administration (NBA91) – Outline

Detailed Course Outline

Introducing NetBackup
  • Data Protection and the NetBackup Environment
  • NetBackup and Flex Appliances: Overview
  • NetBackup Integrated Solutions
  • NetBackup Installation
  • NetBackup Administration Interfaces
Labs:
  • Exercise A: Creating Users and Groups
  • Exercise B: Installing the NetBackup Primary/Master Server Software
  • Exercise C: Installing the NetBackup Java Remote Administration Console
  • Exercise D: Installing the NetBackup Media Server Software
  • Exercise E: Installing the NetBackup Client Software
  • Exercise F: Exploring the NetBackup Administration Console
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
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
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
Labs:
  • Exercise A: Viewing NetBackup Certificates
  • Exercise B: Manually deploying NetBackup Certificates
  • Exercise C: Revoking and Reissuing Host ID-based Certificates
  • Exercise D: Using External 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
Labs:
  • Exercise A: Configuring a BasicDisk Storage Unit
  • Exercise B: Configuring AdvancedDisk Storage
  • Exercise C: Monitoring and Managing AdvancedDisk Storage
  • Exercise D: Configuring a Storage Unit Group
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
Labs:
  • Exercise A: Configuring a Policy to Use a Frequency-based Schedule
  • Exercise B: Configuring a Policy to Use a Calendar-based Schedule
  • Exercise C: Managing NetBackup 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
Labs:
  • Exercise A: Using and Customizing the Activity Monitor
  • Exercise B: Performing Manual Backups
  • Exercise C: Performing User-initiated Backups
  • Exercise D: Restoring Client Files to their Original Location
  • Exercise E: Restoring Client Files to an Alternate File System Location
  • Exercise F: Restoring Client Files to an Alternate Client System
Configuring Media Server Deduplication
  • Introduction to MSDP
  • Variable-Length Deduplication
  • MSDP Architecture
  • Planning a 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: Managing and Monitoring NetBackup MSDP Storage
Configuring Cloud Storage
  • Using the Cloud with NetBackup
  • Configure NetBackup Cloud Storage
  • Managing NetBackup Cloud Backups and Cloud Storage
Labs:
  • Exercise A: Performing Preliminary Tasks
  • Exercise B: Configuring Cloud Storage in NetBackup
  • Exercise C: Configuring and Performing Backups to the Cloud
  • Exercise D: Restoring Client Data from Cloud-based Storage
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 and Windows File Systems
Labs:
  • Exercise A: Configuring and Performing Synthetic Backups
  • Exercise B: Optimizing Backups Using the NetBackup Accelerator
  • Exercise C: Optimizing Backups Using NetBackup FlashBackup
  • Exercise D: Configuring and Using Multiple Data Streams
Protecting VMware Environments
  • Introduction to Virtual Machine Backups
  • Configuring VMware Backups
  • Performing VMware Backups
Labs:
  • Exercise A: Configuring NetBackup to Perform VMware Backups
  • Exercise B: Configuring a VMware Policy
  • Exercise C: Performing and Monitoring VMware Virtual Machine Backups
  • Exercise D: Excluding Disks from a VMware Virtual Machine Backup
  • Exercise E: Configuring Continuous Data Protection
Recovering VMware Environments
  • Performing VMware Restores
  • Instant Access and Instant Rollback for VMware
  • VMware Agentless Restores
Labs:
  • Exercise A: Recovering Virtual Machine Files (agent-based)
  • Exercise B: Recovering a VMware Virtual Machine Disk
  • Exercise C: Recovering an Entire VMware Virtual Machine
  • Exercise D: Using the VMware Agentless Restore
  • Exercise E: Downloading Files and Folders from a VM Backup Image
  • Exercise F: Creating Instant Access VM from a NetBackup Backup Image
  • Exercise G: Instant Rollback for VMs
  • Exercise H: Performing Restores on CDP Protected Backup
Duplicating and Replicating Backups
  • 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: Customizing SLP Settings
  • Exercise D: Viewing and Monitoring SLP Operations
  • Exercise E: Using SLPs to Perform MSDP Optimized Duplication
  • Exercise F: Configuring SLPs for Replicating Backup Images
Protecting the NetBackup Catalog
  • Understanding NetBackup Catalog
  • Protecting the NetBackup Catalog
  • Performing NetBackup Catalog Recovery
  • Maintaining the NetBackup Catalog
Labs:
  • Exercise A: Verifying Catalog Configuration Files
  • Exercise B: Configuring and Running NetBackup Catalog Backups
  • Exercise C: Recovering the Catalogs Using the NetBackup Catalog Recovery Wizard
  • Exercise D: Performing Catalog Operations
  • Exercise E: Configuring a Policy for Catalog Archive
Configuring Immutable and Indelible Storage
  • Ransomware Overview
  • NetBackup Protect Against Ransomware
  • Configuring NetBackup WORM Protection
  • Backup Anomaly Detection
Labs:
  • Exercise A: Configuring Disk Pool and WORM Storage Unit
  • Exercise B: Configuring NetBackup Policy
  • Exercise C: Understanding Catalog Operations on WORM Image Copy
  • Exercise D: Configuring and Identifying Backup Anomaly
Generating NetBackup Reports
  • Generating Reports in NetBackup
  • NetBackup OpsCenter
  • Generating NetBackup Reports in OpsCenter
  • Generating Reports Using APTARE IT Analytics
Labs:
  • Exercise A: Using the NetBackup Reports Utility
  • Exercise B: Configuring OpsCenter Data Collection for NetBackup
  • Exercise C: Generating Reports Using OpsCenter
Upgrading and Updating NetBackup
  • NetBackup Upgrades: Overview
  • 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 Primary/Master Server Using VxUpdate
  • Exercise D: Initiating Upgrades from the Client Using VxUpdate
  • Exercise E: Viewing the Deployment Job Status
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
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
  • Exercise F: Using the Logging Assistant
Appendix A: Protecting Hyper-V Environment
  • Introduction to NetBackup for Hyper-V
  • Configuring Hyper-V Backups
  • Configuring NetBackup Policies for Hyper-V
  • 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 B: Protecting NAS Data
  • Introduction to NetBackup for NDMP
  • Preparing for NDMP Backups
  • Configuring Local NDMP Backup
  • Configuring Remote NDMP Backups
  • Accelerator for NDMP Filers
  • Protecting a NetApp cDOT NDMP Filer
  • Understanding NDMP Three-way Backups
  • Data Protection Configuring NDMP Three-way Backups
  • Dynamic NAS (DNAS) Data Protection
Labs:
  • Exercise A: Authorizing NetBackup Access to NDMP Hosts
  • Exercise B: Configuring and Performing NDMP Backups
  • Exercise C: Using NetBackup Accelerator for NDMP
  • Exercise D: Performing NDMP Restores
  • Exercise E: Performing Prerequisite Tasks for D-NAS Configuration
  • Exercise F: Configuring and Performing D-NAS Backups
  • Exercise G: Restoring D-NAS Backups
Appendix C: Configuring and Managing Tape Storage
  • 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
  • Using Multiple Data Streams
  • Optimizing Tape Drive Performance Using Multiplexing
  • 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 D: Performing Instant Recovery
  • Using VMware Instant Recovery
  • VMware Instant Recovery: Differences
  • VMware Instant Recovery: Process
  • VMware Instant Recovery: Options
  • NetBackup Plug-in in vSphere Web Client
  • Instant Recovery Cleanup
  • Executing the nbrestorevm Command
Labs:
  • Exercise A: Performing Non-NetBackup Pre-requisite Tasks for IRV
  • Exercise B: Performing NetBackup Pre-requisite Tasks for IRV
  • Exercise C: Performing Instant Recovery for VMware Using the vSphere Web Client