Veritas NetBackup 9.1: Administration

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

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

Students should be familiar with general network and storage concepts, and the administration and configuration of Windows or Linux operating systems.
Knowledge of virtualization and cloud technologies is useful.

After completing this course, you will be able to:

• Describe the functions of the Primary/Master server, media servers, and clients.
• Describe how NetBackup backs up and restores data.
• Use the NetBackup Administration Console, Web User Interface, and OpsCenter.
• Configure and manage NetBackup security certificates.
• Configure, manage, and Monitor BasicDisk and AdvancedDisk 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.
• Provision storage and configure MSDP.
• Manage NetBackup cloud backups and cloud storage.
• Optimize file system backups with NetBackup Accelerator.
• Backup, restore and protect virtual environments like VMware and Hyper-V.
• Configure Storage Lifecycle Policies (SLPs) and initiate jobs that use SLPs.
• Protect and manage the NetBackup catalog.
• Configure NetBackup WORM protection.
• Optimize NetBackup for performance.
• Generate NetBackup reports in NetBackup, OpsCenter, and APTARE IT Analytics.
• Initiate NetBackup upgrades using VxUpdate.
• Identify and use resources for troubleshooting NetBackup, including the support information gathering tools.