COURSE DESCRIPTION
Acquire the skills to make your data protection strategy successful with the Veritas NetBackup 8.0: Administration course. You will learn the general principles, configuration, and management of NetBackup, including how to: best utilize the NetBackup tools and interfaces, effectively monitor
backup operations, and ensure data recovery objectives are met.
Duration
By the completion of this course, you will be able to:
• Discuss the challenges of performing backups in today’s enterprise computing environments.
• Describe the functions of the master server, media servers, and clients.
• Diagram the NetBackup product architecture.
• Define common terms used in the NetBackup product.
• Describe how NetBackup backs up and restores data.
• Identify NetBackup options and agents.
• Use the NetBackup Administration Console 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 OpsCenter Operational Restore.
• Monitor NetBackup backup and restore jobs and perform basic troubleshooting and information-gathering steps related to failing jobs.
• Configure and manage AdvancedDisk storage units and disk pools.
• Configure tape-based devices and volume pools; perform a robot inventory.
• Manage robot and tape drive settings, including media sharing.
• Monitor and manage media and media states.
• Configure, run, and manage virtual machine backups using VMware.
• Discuss other supported virtualization methods.
• Recover virtual machines, including using VMware Instant Recovery
• Use the integrated NetBackup vSphere Web Client Plug-in for VMware.
• Describe the various methods of backup image duplication.
• Configure Storage Lifecycle Policies (SLPs) and initiate jobs that use SLPs.
• Manage the NetBackup catalog to search for, verify, duplicate, import, and expire backup images.
• Back up and recover the NetBackup catalogs.
• Optimize file system backups using incremental backups, True Image Restore, synthetic backups, NetBackup Accelerator, multiple data streams, and multiplexing.
• Identify and use resources for troubleshooting NetBackup, including the support information athering tools related.