Veritas NetBackup 6.

5 Administration
(Fundamentals I)

Lesson 1: NetBackup Essentials

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Lesson Introduction
Fundamentals I
Course Introduction
Lesson 1: NetBackup Essentials
Lesson 2: Installing and Configuring NetBackup
Lesson 3: Introduction to NetBackup Interfaces
Lesson 4: Configuring Tape Devices
Lesson 5: Configuring Storage Units
Lesson 6: Configuring Volumes
Lesson 7: Configuring Policies
Lesson 8: Performing Backups and Restores
Lesson 9: Managing Media
Lesson 10: Administrative Tasks and Challenges
Lesson 11: Performing Catalog Backups and
Restores
Fundamentals II

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Lesson Topics and Objectives

After completing this lesson, you will be

Topic
able to:

Topic 1: The Challenges Discuss the challenges of performing backups in

of Enterprise Backup todays enterprises.

Identify the function of the master server,

Topic 2: The NetBackup media server, EMM server, and clients.
Environment
Diagram the NetBackup product architecture.
Define common terms used in the NetBackup
Topic 3: NetBackup product.
Concepts Describe how NetBackup backs up and
restores data.

Topic 4: NetBackup Identify the NetBackup options and agents used

Options and Agents to customize your backup environment.

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Topic 1: The Challenges
of Enterprise Backup

After completing this topic, you will be able to

discuss the challenges of performing
backups in todays enterprises.

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Achieving Complete Data Protection

The hurdles to overcome include:

Several (distributed) sites
No remote staff
Different types of systems
Different types of data
Different data availability and recovery needs
Recovery Point Objective (RPO)
How much data loss you can tolerate
Recovery Time Objective (RTO)
How quickly you can get the data back into production
Shrinking (or no) backup window

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How the Backup Landscape Is
Evolving
New Backup Technologies
Virtual tape libraries (VTLs)
Disk-to-Disk (D2D)
Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape (D2D2T) staging
Virtualized systems
Compliance requirements for data protection and
retention

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How NetBackup Addresses These
Challenges
Distributed and extensible client/server architecture
Snapshot technologies to support point-in-time copy
(PITC) backups
Backup traffic management and load balancing
Simplified configuration through wizards
Scheduled backups supporting automatic retries
Faster client backups using simple configuration
settings
Choice of administrative tools
Choice of monitoring and reporting tools

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Topic 2: The NetBackup
Environment

After completing this topic, you will be able

to:
Identify the function of the Master Server, Media
Server, EMM Server, and Clients.
Diagram the NetBackup product architecture.

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NetBackup Component Definitions

Master server Controls backup and recovery activities

Media server Manages the writing and reading of data

Manages and allocates resources

EMM server
required for NetBackup operations

Are machines that have data to be backed

Clients
up

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NetBackup Server

Data
Resource
Management

Win UNIX Linux

Master 1

Media 1

A EMM

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NBU Enterprise Server: Multiple Media
Servers
Data
Resource
Management

Win UNIX Linux

Master 1

Media 1 Media 2

A EMM B

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NBU Enterprise Server: Dedicated
Media Servers
Data
Resource
Management

Win UNIX Linux

Master 1

Media 1 Media 2
EMM
A B

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NBU Enterprise Server: Multiple
Master Servers
Win UNIX Linux

Master 1
Media 1 Media 2
EMM
A

Media 3 Master 2 Media 4

Data

Win UNIX Linux Resource

Management
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NBU Enterprise Server: A Dedicated
EMM Server
Win UNIX Linux

Media 1 Master 1 Media 2

EMM

Media 3 Master 2 Media 4

Data

Win UNIX Linux Resource

Management
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NBU Operations Manager (NOM)
Architecture
Possible
NOM
Servers

Master 1 Media 2

NOM NOM EMM

Client Server

NOM Client (using a

supported Web
Browser) Master 2 Media 4

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Topic 3: NetBackup
Concepts

After completing this topic, you will be able to:

Define common terms used in the NetBackup
product.
Describe how NetBackup backs up and restores
data.

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Backing Up Data: The Big Picture

Client
Final
Client NetBackup Destination:
data media

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NetBackup Images
An image is a collection of all backup data from a client
into a single stream during a particular backup session
written to tape, optical disk, or disk.

data
stream GNU tar
image
written to
media

Clients
Backup
Data

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Storage Units
A storage unit is a logical destination for a clients backup data.

Storage Unit Types

Media Manager

Clients
Backup
Data

NDMP

Disk

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Volumes

A volume is a recognized piece of removable media (tape or optical).

Tape Optical Disk

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Volume Pools
A volume pool is a set of volumes defined for a specific purpose.

Tapes Optical Disks

Example pools:
NetBackup
DataStore
CatalogBackup
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NetBackup Catalog Components

Image Contains information about what has

Database been backed up

NBU Includes policies, schedules, and other

Configuration files used by NetBackup
Files

Relational Stores media and device data for the

Databases environment

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NetBackup Policies

How will backups occur? Where will

Attributes
backups occur?

Schedules When will backups occur?

Clients Who will be backed up?

Backup
What will be backed up?
Selections
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Backup Types

All files in the specified path are backed

Full
up on each client.

All files changed since the last full or

Differential
incremental (differential or cumulative)
incremental
backup are backed up.

Cumulative All files changed since the last full backup

incremental are backed up.

All files that the user specified are backed

User backup
up.

All files that the user specified are backed up.

User archive If the backup is successful, the backed-up
files are deleted.

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Backing Up Data

Final
Client Destination:
tar file
image on
Client NetBackup media in a
data Storage Unit

NetBackup
Reports

Image NetBackup EMM NetBackup

Database Database Database Logs
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Restoring Data

Client tar file

image on
media in a
NetBackup Client Storage
data
Unit

NetBackup
Reports

Image NetBackup EMM NetBackup

Database Database Database Logs
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Topic 4: NetBackup
Options and Agents

After completing this topic, you will be able to

identify the NetBackup options and agents
used to customize your backup environment.

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NetBackup Options

NetBackup Snapshot Client NetBackup Desktop and Laptop

NetBackup FlashBackup Option
NetBackup Instant Recovery NetBackup Encryption Option
Option NetBackup for NDMP
NetBackup Array Integration
NetBackup NetWare Media
Option
Server Option
NetBackup ServerFree Agent
NetBackup Shared Storage
NetBackup for Oracle
Option (SSO)
Advanced BLI Agent
NetBackup Bare Metal Restore NetBackup Storage Migrator
Veritas Backup Reporter (VBR) NetBackup Vault
NetBackup OpenStorage Disk
Option
NetBackup PureDisk

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NetBackup Agents

NetBackup for DB2

NetBackup for Informix
NetBackup for Lotus Notes
NetBackup for Microsoft Exchange Server
NetBackup for Microsoft SQL Server
NetBackup for Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server
NetBackup for Oracle
NetBackup for Oracle Advanced BLI Agent
NetBackup for SAP R/3
NetBackup for Sybase

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Lesson Summary

Key Points
You are now familiar with the essential components of
NetBackups environment and possible configurations.
You are also aware of terms that relate to NetBackup and are able
to tell the difference between the physical and logical
components within NetBackup.
Reference Materials
NetBackup System Administrators Guide, Volume I and
NetBackup System Administrators Guide, Volume II
NetBackup Release Notes
NetBackup for NDMP System Administrators Guide
http://entsupport.symantec.com

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What Did You Learn?

You are about to be asked a

series of questions related to
the current lesson.
Read and try to answer each
question.
Click Answer at the bottom
of the slide to view the correct
answer.

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Question

Which NetBackup component manages and

allocates device and media resources required
for NetBackup operations?
A. The master server
B. The media server
C. The NOM server
D. The EMM server

Answer
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Answer

Which NetBackup component manages and

allocates device and media resources required
for NetBackup operations?
A. The master server
B. The media server
C. The NOM server
D. The EMM server

The correct answer is D.

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Question

A _____________ is a logical destination for a

client's backup data.

A. Catalog
B. Policy
C. Storage unit
D. Selection list

Answer
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Answer

A _____________ is a logical destination for a

client's backup data.

A. Catalog
B. Policy
C. Storage unit
D. Selection list

The correct answer is C.

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Question

Which of the following is the default volume

pool for hot, online catalog backups?

A. CatBackup
B. CatalogBackup
C. CatalogOnline
D. CatalogVP

Answer
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Answer

Which of the following is the default volume

pool for hot, online catalog backups?

A. CatBackup
B. CatalogBackup
C. CatalogOnline
D. CatalogVP

The correct answer is B.

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