Veritas NetBackup 9.1: Administration Training

Students should be familiar with general network and storage concepts, and the administration and configuration of Windows or Linux operating systems.

• 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, 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 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.
• 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 gathering tools related.

Introducing NetBackup

• Data protection and the NetBackup environment
• NetBackup concepts
• NetBackup Appliance Overview
• Using the NetBackup Administration Console
• Using the NetBackup web interface
• Using NetBackup OpsCenter

Labs:

• Exercise A: Introduction to your Lab On Demand (LOD) lab environment
• Exercise B: Accessing remote lab systems
• Exercise C: Launching the NetBackup Administration Console
• Exercise D: Exploring the NetBackup Administration Console
• Exercise E: Verifying NetBackup licenses
• Exercise F: Identifying common Administration Console configuration items
• Exercise G: Initiating backup jobs using the NetBackup Administration Console
• Exercise H: Viewing and monitoring backup jobs using the Activity Monitor
• Exercise J: Exploring the NetBackup web interface
• Exercise K: Configuring role-based access control

Configuring NetBackup Storage

• NetBackup storage device concepts
• Configuring and managing a basic disk storage unit
• Configuring storage unit groups

Labs:

• Exercise A: Viewing disk storage on a NetBackup server system
• Exercise B: Configuring a BasicDisk storage unit
• Exercise C: Configuring a storage unit group

Configuring Policies

• Introduction to backup policies
• Creating and configuring policy attributes
• Creating a policy schedule
• Adding client to a policy
• Creating backup selections
• Managing existing policies

Labs:

• Exercise A: Configuring a NetBackup policy
• Exercise B: Configuring a policy to use calendar-based schedules
• Exercise C: Copying a policy to create a new policy
• Exercise D: (Optional) Lab challenge

Performing File System Backups

• Using and customizing the NetBackup Activity Monitor
• Performing manual backup operations
• Performing user-directed backups
• Backup job-related tips

Labs:

• Exercise A: Using the Activity Monitor
• Exercise B: Manual backups
• Exercise C: Viewing job details
• Exercise D: Deactivating and activating policies
• Exercise E: Performing user-initiated backups
• Exercise F: Bringing tape drives UP on lnxmaster.example.com

Performing File System Restores

• Introduction to restores
• Performing restore operations using the BAR interface
• Performing restore operations using OpsCenter Operational Restore
• Restore job-related tips

Labs:

• Exercise A: Becoming familiar with key restore settings in the BAR user interface
• Exercise B: Restoring client files to their original location
• Exercise C: Restoring client files to an alternate file system location
• Exercise D: Restoring client files to an alternate client system Windows only
• Exercise E: Restoring client files to an alternate client system Linux only
• Exercise F: Optional Using the OpsCenter Operational Restore feature

Configuring Disk Pools

• Understanding disk pools and AdvancedDisk
• Configuring AdvancedDisk
• Managing AdvancedDisk storage

Labs:

• Exercise A: Identifying AdvancedDisk storage
• Exercise B: Configuring AdvancedDisk
• Exercise C: Verifying AdvancedDisk configuration
• Exercise D: Configuring a policy to write backups to AdvancedDisk storage
• Exercise E: Performing and monitoring backups to AdvancedDisk storage
• Exercise F: Monitoring and managing AdvancedDisk disk pools

Configuring Media Server Deduplication

• Introduction to NetBackup deduplication
• Configuring NetBackup media server deduplication
• Configuring client-side deduplication
• Managing NetBackup deduplication

Labs:

• Exercise A: Configuring NetBackup Media Server Deduplication (MSDP)
• 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
• Exercise F: (Optional) Running Deduplication reports in OpsCenter

Configuring Tape Storage

• Understanding Media Manager storage units
• Configuring tape devices
• Verifying tape storage
• NetBackup media concepts
• Configuring media

Labs:

• Exercise A: Verifying tape devices are visible to the operating system of media servers
• Exercise B: Viewing configured tape devices (using the NetBackup Administration Console)
• Exercise C: Configuring tape devices using the Device Configuration wizard
• Exercise D: Configuring volume pools
• Exercise E: Configuring media using the Administration Console

Managing Tape Storage

• Managing robots and tape drives
• Monitoring media and media states
• Managing tapes
• Media- and device- related tips

Labs:

• Exercise A: Viewing tape drive and robot configuration settings
• Exercise B: Using the Device Monitor to monitor and manage tape drives
• Exercise C: Managing media
• Exercise D: Running tape-based reports
• Exercise E: (Optional) Using the robtest utility
• Exercise F: (Optional) Running NetBackup reports from the command line
• Exercise G: (Optional) Media state management using the command line

Performing Virtual Machines Backups

• Introduction to virtual machine backups
• Configuring VMware backups
• Protecting VMware Assets using the web UI
• Performing and Monitoring VM Backups

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 Web UI

Performing Virtual Machines Restores

• Managing virtual machine restores
• Managing VMware restores
• Using VMware Instant Recovery

Labs:

• Exercise A: Recovering virtual machine files
• Exercise B: Recovering a VMware virtual machine disk
• Exercise C: Recovering an entire VMware virtual machine
• Exercise D: Performing non-NetBackup pre-requisite tasks for IRV (Required, but pre-done)
• Exercise E: Performing NetBackup pre-requisite tasks for IRV
• Exercise F: Performing Instant Recovery for VMware (IRV) using the vSphere Web Client
• Exercise G: Using NetBackup Web UI to recover a virtual machine to alternate location

Duplicating Backups Using Storage Lifecycle Policies

• Backup duplication concepts
• 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

Managing and Protecting the NetBackup Catalog

• Introduction to NetBackup catalogs
• Managing images
• Configuring a catalog backup policy
• Disaster recovery strategies

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

Optimizing File System Backups

• 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: (Optional) Configuring and performing multiplexed backups

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: Running NetBackup reports for troubleshooting
• Exercise C: Using the nbsu and nbcplogs commands
• Exercise D: (Optional) Viewing and setting debug logging properties
• Exercise E: (Optional) Enabling NetBackup legacy debug logging
• Exercise F: (Optional) Viewing debug logging levels for unified logs