Detailed Course Outline
Lesson 01: Introducing NetBackup
- Data Protection and the NetBackup Environment
- NetBackup-Powered Backup Appliances: Overview
- NetBackup Integrated Solutions
- NetBackup Installation
- NetBackup Administration Interfaces
Lesson 02: 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
Lesson 03: 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
Lesson 04: Configuring Basic and Advanced Disk Storage
- NetBackup Storage Device Concepts
- Configuring a BasicDisk Storage Unit
- Configuring AdvancedDisk
- Managing AdvancedDisk Storage
- Configuring Storage Unit Groups
Lesson 05: 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
Lesson 06: Protecting File Systems
- Performing Manual Backup Operations
- Using and Customizing the NetBackup Activity Monitor
- Backup Job-related Tips
- Introduction to Restores
- Performing Restore Operations Using the NetBackup Web UI
- Performing User-directed Backups
- Performing Restore Operations Using the BAR Interface on a Client Machine
- Performing Restore Operations Using the BAR Interface
Lesson 07: Configuring Media Server Deduplication
- Introducing MSDP
- MSDP Architecture
- Planning a Deployment
- Provisioning Storage and Configuring MSDP
Lesson 08: 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
Lesson 09: Optimizing Filesystem Backups
- Filesystem Backup Challenges
- Optimizing Filesystem Backups
- Optimizing Filesystem Backups with NetBackup Accelerator
- NetBackup FlashBackup
- Using Multiple Data Streams
- Handling Busy Files on UNIX/Linux and Windows Filesystems
Lesson 10: Protecting VMware Environments
- Introducing Virtual Machine Backups
- Configuring VMware Backups
- Continuous Data Protection for VMware
- Performing and Monitoring VMware Backups
Lesson 11: Recovering VMware Environments
- Performing VMware Restores
- Instant Access and Instant Rollback for VMware
- VMware Agentless Restores
Lesson 12: Duplicating and Replicating Backups
- Duplication Strategies
- Storage Lifecycle Policy: Concepts
- Using Storage Lifecycle Policies
- Additional Storage Lifecycle Policy Features
Lesson 13: Protecting the NetBackup Catalog
- Understanding the NetBackup Catalog
- Managing Images
- Protecting the NetBackup Catalog
- Performing NetBackup Catalog Recovery
Lesson 14: Mitigating the Impact of Ransomware
- Ransomware: Overview
- NetBackup Protection Against Ransomware
- Backup Anomaly Detection
- NetBackup Malware Scanning
Lesson 15: Generating NetBackup Reports
- Generating Reports in NetBackup
- NetBackup IT Analytics: Overview
- Generating NetBackup Reports in NetBackup IT Analytics
Lesson 16: Upgrading and Updating NetBackup
- NetBackup Upgrades: Overview
- Planning for an Upgrade: Overview
- Primary Server Upgrade: Overview
- Media Server Upgrade: Overview
- MSDP Upgrade for NetBackup
- Client upgrade: Overview
- NetBackup Deployment with VxUpdate
Lesson 17: 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
Appendix A: Protecting Hyper-V Environments
- Introduction to NetBackup for Hyper-V
- Configuring Hyper-V Backups
- Configuring NetBackup Policies for Hyper-V
- Performing and Monitoring Hyper-V Backups
- Performing Hyper-V Restores
- Performing Hyper-V restores with the NetBackup Add-in for SCVMM
Appendix B: Protecting NAS Data
- Introduction to NetBackup for NDMP
- Preparing for NDMP Backups
- Configuring Local NDMP Backup
- 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
Appendix C: 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
- Optimizing Tape Drive Performance Using Multiplexing
- Troubleshooting Frozen and Suspended Media
Appendix D: 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
Appendix E: Protecting D-NAS Data
- Dynamic NAS (D-NAS) Data Protection
- D-NAS Planning and Pre-requisites
- Configuring Storage Lifecyle Policies for D-NAS
- Volume Multi-host Backup
- Configuring D-NAS Policy for NAS Backups
- NetBackup Accelerator for D-NAS
- Using Vendor Change Tracking
- Using True Image Restore
- Replication Using D-NAS Policy
- Restoring from D-NAS Backups