Veritas NetBackup 10.0: Administration

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: Configuring and Performing Backups to the Cloud
• 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: Configuring and Identifying Backup Anomaly

Labs: Part B (Using AWS S3):
• Exercise A: Configuring a Disk Po:ol 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: Enabling NetBackup Legacy Debug Logging
• 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