Veritas NetBackup 8.

3: Administration

COURSE DESCRIPTION • Identify and use resources for troubleshooting

NetBackup, including the support information gathering
Acquire the skills to make your data protection strategy tools related.
successful with the Veritas NetBackup 8.3: Administration
course. You will learn the general principles, configuration, Who Should Attend
and management of NetBackup, including how to best utilize This course is intended for technical professionals
the NetBackup tools and interfaces, effectively monitor responsible for the design, configuration, operation,
backup operations, and ensure that the data recovery monitoring, or support of NetBackup.
objectives are met.
Prerequisites
Delivery Method(s) Students should be familiar with general network and storage
This course is available in the following delivery methods: concepts, and the administration and configuration of
• Instructor-led training (ILT) Windows or Linux operating systems.
• Virtual instructor-led training (VILT)
• Learning Lab Hands-On
This course includes practical hands-on lab exercises to
Duration apply your new skills in a virtual NetBackup domain. At the
• Instructor-led training - ILT: 5 days, including 6 months start of class students will choose between Windows-based
of lab access or Linux-based NetBackup servers to perform lab exercises.
• Virtual instructor-led training - VILT: 5 days, including 6
months of lab access COURSE OUTLINE
• Learning Lab – Self-paced lesson guide plus 6 months
of lab access Introducing NetBackup
• Data Protection and the NetBackup Environment
Course Objectives • NetBackup licensing models
After completing this course, you will be able to: • NetBackup Appliance overview
• Discuss the challenges of performing backups in today’s • Using the NetBackup Administration Console
enterprise computing environments. • Installing NetBackup
• Describe the functions of the master server, media Labs:
servers, and clients. • Exercise A: Creating web service user and group on
• Describe how NetBackup backs up and restores data. NetBackup master server
• Identify NetBackup options and agents. • Exercise B: Installing NetBackup master server software
• Use the NetBackup Administration Console, Web • Exercise C: Installing NetBackup Java Remote
Interface, and OpsCenter. Administration Console
• Configure and manage basic disk storage units and • Exercise D: Installing NetBackup media server software
storage unit groups. • Exercise E: Installing NetBackup client software
• Configure file system backup policies and schedules. • Exercise F: Exploring the NetBackup Administration
• Perform manual backups and user-directed backups. Console
• Restore files using the Java or Windows BAR interface • Exercise G: Viewing NetBackup Host Properties
and OpsCenter Operational Restore.
• Monitor NetBackup backup and restore jobs and perform NetBackup Web UI
basic troubleshooting and information-gathering related • NetBackup Web User Interface
to failing jobs. • Managing role-based access control
• Configure and manage AdvancedDisk storage units and • Configuring NetBackup for Single Sign-On
disk pools. • Configuring storage
• Configure tape-based devices and volume pools; • Managing credentials
perform a robot inventory. • Protecting workload assets
• Describe the various methods of backup image • Monitoring and notifications
duplication. • Managing user sessions
• Describe MSDP cloud support and duplicate backups Labs:
from local MSDP storage to MSDP cloud. • Exercise A: Accessing and navigating the NetBackup
• Backup, restore and protect virtual environments like web user interface
VMware and Hyper-V. • Exercise B: Configuring role-based access control
• Configure Storage Lifecycle Policies (SLPs) and initiate • Exercise C: Configuring NetBackup for Single Sign-On
jobs that use SLPs. • Exercise D: Viewing and configuring notifications
• Manage the NetBackup catalog. • Exercise E: Managing user sessions
• Optimize NetBackup for performance.
• Generate NetBackup reports.

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NetBackup Storage • Exercise J: Using the OpsCenter Operational Restore
• NetBackup storage device concepts feature (Optional)
• Configuring and managing a basic disk storage unit
• Configuring storage unit groups NetBackup Certificate Administration
• Configuring AdvancedDisk • Understanding security certificates
• Managing AdvancedDisk Storage • Working with Certificate Revocation Lists
Labs: • Configuring NetBackup security certificates
• Exercise A: Viewing disk storage on a NetBackup server • Managing NetBackup security certificates
system • Using external security certificates with NetBackup
• Exercise B: Configuring a Basic Disk storage unit Labs:
• Exercise C: Identifying AdvancedDisk storage server • Exercise A: Viewing host ID-based certificate details
• Exercise D: Configuring an AdvancedDisk Disk Pool • Exercise B: Manually deploying the CA certificate on a
• Exercise E: Verifying AdvancedDisk configuration NetBackup client
• Exercise F: Configuring a policy to write backups to • Exercise C: Manually deploying the host-id certificate on
AdvancedDisk storage a NetBackup host
• Exercise G: Performing and monitoring backups to • Exercise D: Revoking host ID-based certificates
AdvancedDisk storage • Exercise E: Configuring External Certificate Authority
• Exercise H: Monitoring and managing AdvancedDisk (ECA) on the NetBackup Master Server
disk pools • Exercise F: Configuring a NetBackup host to use an
• Exercise I: Configuring a storage unit group ECA-signed certificate
• Exercise G: Disabling an external CA in a NetBackup
NetBackup Policies domain
• Introduction to backup policies
• Creating and configuring policy attributes Storage Lifecycle Policies
• Creating a policy schedule • Duplication strategies
• Adding client to a policy • Storage lifecycle policy concepts
• Creating backup selections • Using storage lifecycle policies
• Managing policies • Additional Storage Lifecycle Policy features and benefits
Labs: Labs:
• Exercise A: Configuring a policy to use frequency-based • Exercise A: Configuring a Storage Lifecycle Policy
schedules • Exercise B: Configuring a policy to use an SLP
• Exercise B: Configuring a policy to use calendar-based • Exercise C: SLP Host Properties
schedules • Exercise D: Viewing and monitoring SLP operations
• Exercise C: Copying a policy to create a new policy
Optimizing NetBackup
Protecting File Systems • File system backup challenges
• Performing manual backup operations • Optimizing file system backups
• Using and customizing the NetBackup Activity Monitor • Optimizing file system backups with NetBackup
• Performing user-directed backups Accelerator
• Backup job-related tips • Using multiple data streams
• Introduction to restores • Optimizing tape drive performance using multiplexing
• Performing restore operations using the BAR interface • Handling busy files on UNIX and Windows file systems
• Performing restore operations using OpsCenter Labs:
Operational Restore • Exercise A: Optimizing backups using the NetBackup
• Restore job-related tips Accelerator
Labs: • Exercise B: Configuring and using multiple data streams
• Exercise A: Using the Activity Monitor • Exercise C: Configuring and performing multiplexed
• Exercise B: Performing manual backups backups (Optional)
• Exercise C: Viewing job details
• Exercise D: Deactivating and activating policies NetBackup: Upgrading and Updating
• Exercise E: Performing user-initiated backups • VxUpdate overview
• Exercise F: Becoming familiar with key restore settings • Deployment Policy Management
in the BAR user interface • Initiating upgrades using VxUpdate
• Exercise G: Restoring client files to their original location • VxUpdate Error Codes
• Exercise H: Restoring client files to an alternate file Labs:
system location • Exercise A: Populating the repository with NetBackup
• Exercise I: Restoring client files to an alternate client packages
system • Exercise B: Configuring a Deployment policy

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• Exercise C: Manually initiating upgrades from the master • Exercise B: Configuring NetBackup to perform VMware
server using VxUpdate backups
• Exercise D: Initiating upgrades from the client using • Exercise C: Installing the NetBackup Plug-in for VMware
VxUpdate vSphere Web Client
• Exercise E: Viewing the deployment job status • Exercise D: Configuring a VMware policy
• Exercise E: Performing and monitoring VMware virtual
NetBackup Deduplication machine backups
• Introduction to MSDP • Exercise F: Excluding disks from a VMware virtual
• Deduplication solutions machine backup
• MSDP architecture • Exercise G: Managing VMware assets using the
• Planning your deployment NetBackup Web UI
• Provisioning storage and configuring MSDP • Exercise H: Managing VMware credentials using Web UI
Labs: • Exercise I: Recovering virtual machine files
• Exercise A: Configuring NetBackup Media Server • Exercise J: Recovering a VMware virtual machine disk
Deduplication • Exercise K: Recovering an entire VMware virtual
• Exercise B: Configuring a policy to use MSDP storage machine
• Exercise C: Performing backups to MSDP storage • Exercise L: Using NetBackup Web UI to recover a virtual
• Exercise D: Configuring and using client-side machine to alternate location
deduplication • Exercise M: Using the Instant Access for VMware (Linux
• Exercise E: Monitoring and managing NetBackup MSDP only)
storage
NetBackup Catalog
NetBackup MSDP Cloud and Disaster Recovery • NetBackup catalog: Overview
• MSDP Cloud Support • NetBackup relational databases
• MSDP Online data integrity checking • Catalog backup and recovery
• Optimizing deduplication restores and rehydration • Maintaining the NBDB
• Monitoring MSDP Labs:
• MSDP Disaster Recover • Exercise A: Running NetBackup reports
Labs: • Exercise B: Verifying, expiring, and importing backup
• Exercise A: Configuring MSDP Cloud images
• Exercise B: Duplicating backups from local MSDP • Exercise C: Configuring and running NetBackup catalog
storage to MSDP Cloud backups
• Exercise C: Performing Disaster Recovery • Exercise D: Recovering the catalogs using the
• Exercise D: (Optional) Examining MSDP cloud NetBackup Catalog Recovery wizard
configuration files
• Exercise E: (Optional) Verifying Data Integrity Checks NetBackup Reporting
• Generating reports in NetBackup
Ransomware • Generating reports using OpsCenter
• Ransomware overview • Generating reports using APTARE IT Analytics
• NetBackup protection against Ransomware Labs:
• Configuring NetBackup WORM protection • Exercise A: Generating reports in NetBackup Admin
Labs: Console
• Exercise A: Configuring NetBackup WORM storage • Exercise B: Generating reports using OpsCenter
server instance
• Exercise B: Configuring Disk Pool and WORM Storage NetBackup Integrated Solutions
Unit • Introduction to NetBackup APIs
• Exercise C: Configuring NetBackup Policy • NetBackup Integration with Veritas Resiliency Platform
• Exercise D: Understanding catalog operations on • NetBackup Integration with Access Appliance 3340
WORM image copy (7.4.2)
• NetBackup Integration with Enterprise Vault
Protecting VMware Environments
• Understanding VMware backups Appendix A: Collecting Logs and Diagnostic Information
• Performing VMware backups • Performing basic NetBackup troubleshooting
• Performing VMware restores • Identifying NetBackup processes, services, and
• Instant Access for VMware daemons
• VMware Agentless Restore • NetBackup logging overview
Labs: • Using the support utilities
• Exercise A: Verifying the VMware environment • Using NetBackup support resources

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Labs: • VMware Instant Recovery: Differences
• Exercise A: Viewing the NetBackup services • VMware Instant Recovery: Process
• Exercise B: Using the nbsu and nbcplogs commands • Working with the NetBackup plug-in in vSphere Web
• Exercise C: Viewing and setting debug logging Client
properties • Instant Recovery Cleanup
• Exercise D: Enabling NetBackup legacy debug logging • Executing the nbrestorevm command
• Exercise E: Viewing debug logging levels for unified logs Labs:
• Exercise A: Verifying the VMware environment
Appendix B: Configuring and Managing tape storage • Exercise B: Performing non-NetBackup pre-requisite
• Understanding Media Manager storage units tasks for IRV
• Configuring tape devices • Exercise C: Performing NetBackup pre-requisite tasks
• Verifying tape storage for IRV
• NetBackup media concepts • Exercise D: Performing Instant Recovery for VMware
• Configuring media (IRV) using the vSphere Web Client
• 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

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