NetBackup 6.x Troubleshooting Techniques for Windows (NBTTW)

This course is for NetBackup administrators, operators, system engineers, and technical support personnel who want to broaden their NetBackup advanced troubleshooting knowledge and skills on a Windows platform.

Before attending this course, you should have:

• One year of NetBackup Windows administration
• Two years experience as a Windows system administrator, including networking
• Familiarity with backup and restore concepts and SAN concepts

This course provides instruction on troubleshooting NetBackup 6.x. After completing this course, you will be able to:

• Upgrade from NetBackup 5.x to NetBackup 6.0 or to NetBackup 6.5.
• Detect problems using tools, such as the Activity Monitor, reports, NBSupport, the NetBackup Operations Manager (NOM), and notify scripts.
• Identify the services and processes that run on the master server, media server, EMM server, and clients.
• Enable and use legacy, unified, and robust logging to troubleshoot problems.
• Back up, recover, and maintain the NBDB.
• Focus on problem resolution using tools, such as NetBackup commands and system commands and files.
• Troubleshoot new server and client installations, in addition to media, system, network, device, and other problems.
• Correct problems and verify the problem correction.

This Veritas NetBackup Troubleshooting Techniques course provides the IT professional with instruction on troubleshooting Veritas NetBackup 6.x software. This course covers general error detection tools and approaches problem-solving using the scientific method. Students study the functions of key NetBackup processes and how to enable, view, and manage the associated logs. In addition, students practice solving problems related to the NetBackup database, devices, media, networking, and performance.