COURSE DESCRIPTION
Acquire the skills to make your data protection strategy successful with the Veritas Backup Exec: Administration course. The course is designed for the data protection professional tasked with deploying, configuring, maintaining, and managing a Backup Exec environment.
The course covers Backup Exec concepts, how to back up and restore critical data, configure storage devices and media, and work with various Backup Exec agents and options, which
protect applications like Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft SQL, Microsoft 365, Active Directory, Cloud, Oracle, and Virtual environments.
Delivery Methods
This course is available in the following delivery method:
• Instructor-led training (ILT)
• Virtual instructor-led training (VILT)
• Learning Lab

Duration
• Instructor-led training - ILT: 5 days, including 6 months of lab access
• Virtual instructor-led training - VILT: 5 days, including 6 months of lab access
• Learning Lab – Self-paced lesson guide plus 6 months of lab access

Course Objectives
By the completion of this course, you will be able to:
• Describe the functionality and architecture of BackupExec.
• Install and upgrade to Backup Exec.
• Configure storage devices – Cloud-based storage and Network storage.
• Backup data to and restore data from disk, network, and the Cloud.
• Perform tape devices and tape management.
• Manage servers and jobs.
• Set backup and recovery settings and methods.
• Work with the Database Encryption Key.
• Perform online Disaster Recovery.
• Install the SDR disk creation wizard, create an SDR disk image and recover a server with SDR.
• Back up a physical machine and convert to a virtual machine either simultaneously or on a schedule.
• Install, configure, and manage the Backup Exec Central Admin Server feature.
• Configure Backup Exec Deduplication Storage.
• Protect remote servers using the appropriate remote agents, applications, and databases.
• Use Backup Exec to protect databases and applications, including;
o Microsoft Hyper-V
o Microsoft SQL Server
o Microsoft Exchange
o Microsoft SharePoint
o Microsoft 365
o Active Directory
o Oracle
• Protect virtual environments.
• Perform virtual machine conversions.

Who Should Attend
This course is designed for system administrators, system engineers, technical support personnel, consultants, backup administrators, backup operators, and others who are responsible for installing, configuring, managing, and monitoring Backup Exec.
Prerequisites
You must have a basic working knowledge of administrating and configuring Windows Server 2016 and later platforms.
Basic working knowledge of the following applications is beneficial, but not required:
• Microsoft SQL Server
• Microsoft Exchange Server
• Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server
• Microsoft Hyper-V
• VMware virtual infrastructure.
• Oracle
• Cloud Technologies
• Microsoft 365