• Discuss the challenges of performing backups in today¡¯s enterprise computing
environments.
• Describe the functions of the master server, media servers, and clients.
• Describe how NetBackup backs up and restores data.
• Identify NetBackup options and agents.
• Use the NetBackup Administration Console, Web Interface, and OpsCenter.
• Configure and manage basic disk 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 Ops Center Operational
Restore.
• Monitor NetBackup backup and restore jobs and perform basic troubleshooting and
information-gathering related to failing jobs.
• Configure and manage AdvancedDisk storage units and disk pools.
• Configure tape-based devices and volume pools; perform a robot inventory.
• Describe the various methods of backup image duplication.
• Describe MSDP cloud support and duplicate backups from local MSDP storage to MSDP
cloud.
• Backup, restore and protect virtual environments like VMware and Hyper-V.
• Configure Storage Lifecycle Policies (SLPs) and initiate jobs that use SLPs.
• Manage the NetBackup catalog.
• Optimize NetBackup for performance.
• Generate NetBackup reports.
• Identify and use resources for troubleshooting NetBackup, including the support
information gathering tools related.
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
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
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
• 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