Detailed Course Outline
Introducing NetBackup
- Data Protection and the NetBackup Environment
- NetBackup and Flex Appliances: Overview
- NetBackup Integrated Solutions
- NetBackup Installation
- NetBackup Administration Interfaces
Labs:
- Exercise A: Creating Users and Groups
- Exercise B: Installing the NetBackup Primary Server Software
- Exercise C: Installing the NetBackup Java Remote Administration Console
- Exercise D: Installing the NetBackup Media Server Software
- Exercise E: Installing the NetBackup Client Software
- Exercise F: Exploring the NetBackup Administration Console
Working with the NetBackup Web UI
- NetBackup Web User Interface
- Configuring NetBackup for Single Sign-On
- Protecting Workload Assets
- Managing Role-based Access Control
- Alerts 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
Performing 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 NetBackup Certificates
- Exercise B: Manually Deploying NetBackup Certificates
- Exercise C: Revoking and Reissuing Host ID-based Certificates
- Exercise D: Using External Certificates with NetBackup
Configuring Basic and Advanced Disk Storage
- NetBackup Storage Device Concepts
- Configuring a BasicDisk Storage Unit
- Configuring AdvancedDisk
- Managing AdvancedDisk Storage
- Configuring Storage Unit Groups
Labs:
- Exercise A: Configuring a BasicDisk Storage Unit
- Exercise B: Configuring AdvancedDisk Storage
- Exercise C: Monitoring and Managing AdvancedDisk Storage
- Exercise D: Configuring a Storage Unit Group
Configuring NetBackup Policies and Schedules
- Backup Policies: Overview
- Creating and Configuring Policy Attributes
- Creating a Policy Schedule
- Adding Clients to a Policy
- Creating Backup Selections
- Exclude and Include Lists
- Managing Policies
Labs:
- Exercise A: Configuring a Policy to Use a Frequency-based Schedule
- Exercise B: Configuring a Policy to Use a Calendar-based Schedule
- Exercise C: Managing NetBackup Policies
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 NetBackup Web UI
- Performing Restore Operations Using the BAR interface
Labs:
- Exercise A: Using and Customizing the Activity Monitor
- Exercise B: Performing Manual Backups
- Exercise C: Performing User-initiated Backups
- Exercise D: Restoring Client Files to their Original Location
- Exercise E: Restoring Client Files to an Alternate File System Location
- Exercise F: Restoring Client Files to an Alternate Client System
Configuring Media Server Deduplication
- Introduction to MSDP
- Variable-Length Deduplication
- MSDP Architecture
- Planning a 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: Managing and Monitoring NetBackup MSDP Storage
Configuring Cloud Storage
- Using the Cloud with NetBackup
- MSDP Cloud Support
- Memory-efficient Dedup Service
- MSDP Cloud Immutable (WORM) Storage
- Image Sharing using MSDP Cloud
Labs:
- Exercise A: Performing Preliminary Tasks
- Exercise B: Configuring Cloud Storage in NetBackup
- Exercise C:
- Exercise D: Restoring Client Data from Cloud-based Storage
Optimizing Filesystem Backups
- File System Backup Challenges
- Optimizing File System Backups
- Optimizing File System Backups with NetBackup Accelerator
- NetBackup FlashBackup
- Using multiple Data Streams
- Handling Busy Files on UNIX/Linux and Windows File Systems
Labs:
- Exercise A: Configuring and Performing Synthetic Backups
- Exercise B: Optimizing Backups Using NetBackup Accelerator
- Exercise C: Optimizing Backups Using NetBackup FlashBackup
- Exercise D: Configuring and Using Multiple Data Streams
Protecting VMware Environments
- Introduction to Virtual Machine Backups
- Configuring VMware Backups
- Continuous Data Protection for VMware
- Performing and Monitoring VMware Backups
Labs:
- Exercise A: Configuring NetBackup for VMware Backups
- Exercise B: Configuring a VMware Policy
- Exercise C: Performing and Monitoring VMware Virtual Machine Backups
- Exercise D: Excluding Disks from a VMware Virtual Machine Backup
- Exercise E: Configuring Continuous Data Protection
Recovering VMware Environments
- Performing VMware Restores
- Instant Access and Instant Rollback for VMware
- VMware Agentless Restores
Labs:
- Exercise A: Recovering Virtual Machine Files (Agent-based)
- Exercise B: Recovering a VMware Virtual Machine Disk
- Exercise C: Recovering the Entire VMware Virtual Machine
- Exercise D: Using VMware Agentless Restore
- Exercise E: Downloading Files and Folders from a Virtual Machine Backup Image
- Exercise F: Creating an Instant Access Virtual Machine from a NetBackup Backup Image
- Exercise G: Performing Instant Rollback for Virtual Machines
- Exercise H: Performing Restores from a Continuous Data Protection Backup
Duplicating and Replicating Backups
- 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 a Storage Lifecycle Policy
- Exercise C: Customizing Storage Lifecycle Policy Settings
- Exercise D: Viewing and Monitoring Storage Lifecycle Policy Operations
- Exercise E: Using Storage Lifecycle Policies to Perform MSDP Optimized Duplication
- Exercise F: Configuring Storage Lifecycle Policies for Replicating Backup Images
Protecting the NetBackup Catalog
- Understanding the NetBackup Catalog
- Managing Images
- Protecting the NetBackup Catalog
- Performing NetBackup Catalog Recovery
- Maintaining the NetBackup Catalog
Labs:
- Exercise A: Verifying Catalog Configuration Files
- Exercise B: Configuring and Running NetBackup Catalog Backups
- Exercise C: Recovering the Catalogs Using the NetBackup Catalog Recovery Wizard
- Exercise D: Performing Catalog Operations
- Exercise E: Configuring a Policy for Catalog Archive
Mitigating Impact of Ransomware
- Ransomware Overview
- NetBackup Protect Against Ransomware
- Backup Anomaly Detection
- NetBackup Malware Tool
Labs: Part A (Using Flex Appliance)
- Exercise A: Configuring a Disk Pool and WORM Storage Unit
- Exercise B: Configuring a NetBackup Policy
- Exercise C: Understanding Catalog Operations on the WORM Image Copy
- Exercise D
Labs: Part B (Using AWS S3)
- Exercise A: Configuring a Disk Pool and WORM Storage Unit
- Exercise B: Configuring a NetBackup Policy
- Exercise C: Understanding Catalog Operations on the WORM Backup Image
- Exercise D: Configuring and Identifying Backup Anomaly
- Exercise E: Configuring and Using NetBackup Malware Scanner
Generating NetBackup Reports
- Generating Reports in NetBackup
- NetBackup OpsCenter
- Generating NetBackup Reports in OpsCenter
- Generating Reports Using NetBackup IT Analytics
Labs:
- Exercise A: Using the NetBackup Reports Utility
- Exercise B: Configuring OpsCenter Data Collection for NetBackup
- Exercise C: Generating Reports Using OpsCenter
Upgrading and Updating NetBackup
- NetBackup Upgrades: Overview
- VxUpdate: Overview
- Deployment Policy Management
- Initiating Upgrades Using VxUpdate
- VxUpdate: Error Codes
Labs:
- Exercise A: Populating the Repository with NetBackup Packages
- Exercise B: Configuring a Deployment Policy
- Exercise C: Manually Initiating Upgrades from the Primary Server Using VxUpdate
- Exercise D: Initiating Upgrades from the Client Using VxUpdate
- Exercise E: Viewing the Deployment Job Status
Collecting Logs and Diagnostic Information
- Performing Basic NetBackup Troubleshooting
- Identifying NetBackup Processes, Services, and Daemons
- NetBackup Logging: Overview
- Using Support Utilities
- Using NetBackup Support Resources
Labs:
- Exercise A: Viewing NetBackup Services
- Exercise B: Using the nbsu and nbcplogs Commands
- Exercise C: Viewing and Setting Debug Logging Properties
- Exercise D
- Exercise E: Viewing Debug Logging Levels for Unified Logs
- Exercise F: Using the Logging Assistant
- Exercise G: Using the NetBackup Smart Diagnostics Utility
Appendix A: Protecting NAS Data
- Introduction to NetBackup for NDMP
- Preparing for NDMP Backups
- Configuring Local NDMP Backups
- Configuring Remote NDMP Backups
- Accelerator for NDMP Filers
- Protecting a NetApp cDOT NDMP Filer
- Understanding NDMP Three-way Backups
- Data Protection: Configuring NDMP Three-way Backups
- Dynamic NAS (DNAS) Data Protection
Labs:
- Exercise A: Authorizing NetBackup Access to NDMP Hosts
- Exercise B: Configuring and Performing NDMP Backups
- Exercise C: Using NetBackup Accelerator for NDMP
- Exercise D: Performing NDMP Restores
- Exercise E: Performing Prerequisite Tasks for DNAS Configuration
- Exercise F: Configuring and Performing DNAS Backups
- Exercise G: Restoring Files from DNAS Backups
Appendix B: Configuring and Managing Tape Storage
- 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
- Using Multiple Data Streams
- Optimizing Tape Drive Performance Using Multiplexing
- 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: Performing Instant Recovery
- Using VMware Instant Recovery
- VMware Instant Recovery: Differences
- VMware Instant Recovery: Process
- VMware Instant Recovery: Options
- NetBackup Plug-in in vSphere Web Client
- Instant Recovery Cleanup
- Executing the nbrestorevm Command
Labs:
- Exercise A: Performing Non-NetBackup Pre-requisite Tasks for Instant Recovery for VMware
- Exercise B: Performing NetBackup Pre-requisite Tasks for Instant Recovery for VMware
- Exercise C: Performing Instant Recovery for VMware Using the vSphere Web Client