Veritas Backup Exec 16
Duration: 5 Days (40 Hours)
Veritas Backup Exec 16 Course Overview:
The Veritas Backup Exec 16: Administration course is tailored for data protection professionals who are responsible for various aspects of critical data management. This five-day, Instructor-led course provides hands-on training on data backup and restoration techniques, storage device configuration, media management, and overall maintenance of the Backup Exec environment. Participants will also learn to configure and utilize Backup Exec Agents, which offer protection for applications such as Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft SQL, and virtual environments. By the end of the course, students will have a comprehensive understanding of administering Veritas Backup Exec 16 and its associated components.
Intended Audience:
This course is designed for system administrators, system engineers, technical support personnel, systems professionals, consultants, backup administrators, backup operators, and others who are responsible for installing, configuring, and day-to-day management of Backup Exec 16.
Course Objectives:
- Describe the basic functionality of Backup Exec 16.
- Describe the basic architecture of Backup Exec 16.
- Install and upgrade to Backup Exec 16.
- Install and work with the Backup Exec 16 RAC.
- Configure storage devices.
- Manage devices and media used by Backup Exec.
- Run basic backup jobs.
- Set backup settings and methods.
- Restore backed-up data.
- Perform Online Disaster Recovery.
- Work with the Database Encryption Key.
- Install the SDR disk creation wizard and create an SDR disk image.
- Recovering a server with SDR.
- Backup a physical machine and convert to virtual simultaneously.
- Backup a physical machine and convert to virtual based on a schedule.
- Install, configure, and manage the Veritas Backup Exec Central Admin Server Option.
- Protect remote servers using the appropriate Remote Agent.
- Install, configure, and work with the Agent for Windows and the Agent for Linux.
- Use Backup Exec to protect databases and applications.
- Protect the following:
- VMware vSphere
- Microsoft Hyper-V
- Microsoft SQL Server
- Microsoft Exchange
- Microsoft SharePoint
- Agent for Active Directory
- List the supported virtual conversion configurations.
- Install the Deduplication option.
- Configure Backup Exec Deduplication Storage.
- Backup and restore deduplicated data.
Veritas Backup Exec 15: Install and Configure
- About this course
- Education and support resources
- Backup Exec 16 Fundamentals
- Data backup basics
- Backup Exec solution offerings
- Backup Exec architecture
- Backup Exec 16 end of life items
- Installing Backup Exec 16
- Backup Exec 16 download options
- Backup Exec 16 – New installation
- Typical installation of Backup Exec
- Custom installation of Backup Exec
- Installation Logs
- Installing Backup Exec 16: Remote Administration Console
- Applying Backup Exec updates
- Working with the Administration Console
- Launching Backup Exec 16
- Backing up and recovering data
- Licensing Backup Exec 16
- Backup Exec License Editions
- Capacity Editions
- V-Ray Edition
- Backup Exec 16 license key requirements
- Disk Storage Devices
- Backup Exec storage devices
- Configuring disk storage devices
- Configuring disk cartridge devices
- Configuring deduplication storage
- Configuring Backup Exec storage pools
- Managing disk storage devices
- Network Storage Devices
- Configuring cloud storage
- Configuring network storage
- Disk and Network Storage Data Management
- Managing disk and network data
- Data Lifecycle Management
- Read only setting
- Media Catalogs
- Tape Devices and Tape Management
- Configuring tape storage
- Managing tape devices
- Tape Storage Operations
- Managing tapes with media sets
- Backing up Data
- Adding a server
- Creating a backup job
- Working with multi-server backup definitions
- Accounts and credentials in Backup Exec
- Managing server selections
- Backup selections – Dynamic inclusion
- Backup selections – Tag as Business-Critical
- Backup selections – Resource ordering
- Backup selections – Excludes
- Adding a backup task
- Backup settings – Backup methods
- Backup settings – Additional settings
- Backup stage basics
- Job name fundamentals
- Manually running backup jobs
- Managing Servers and Jobs
- Backup and Restore view
- Server groups
- Retired servers group
- Restoring Data
- Viewing contents of backup sets
- Restore job basics
- Restore settings
- Granular restore technology (GRT)
- Restoring data from a single backup set
- Restoring data from multiple backup sets
- Restoring data from a cloud storage device
- Restoring data from disk storage
- Restoring data from tape
- Restoring data from backup job
- Online Disaster Recovery
- Restoring System State
- Shadow Copy Components
- Working with the Database Encryption Key
- Backup Exec Database sensitive data components
- Auto-generated AES-256 encryption key
- Protecting the Database Encryption Key (DEK)
- Simplified Disaster Recovery
- Simplified Disaster Recovery fundamentals
- Simplified Disaster Recovery: Backup
- Installing the SDR disk creation wizard
- Creating an SDR disk image (.iso) file
- Recovering a server with SDR
- Windows Storage Pools and Spaces
- SDR additional options
- Upgrading to Backup Exec 16
- Upgrading to Backup Exec 16 server
- Backup Exec 16 Central Admin server and Managed Backup Exec server rolling upgrades
- Agent for Windows upgrade
- Migration report
- Appendix A: Storage Devices
- Windows Storage Pools and Spaces
- Network Storage
- Remote Media Agent for Linux
- Robotic Libraries
- Importing a legacy backup-to-disk folder
- Appendix B: Central Admin Server Option
- Backup Exec 16 CAS: Overview
- Installing the CAS
- Installing MBES
- Backup jobs: MBES and Server Pools
- Restoring Files using CAS
- Instant Recovery jobs
- MBES Settings
- Copy Configuration to MBES
- Upgrading a CAS environment to Backup Exec 16
- Renaming CAS and MBES
- MBES to Standalone
- Offline Central Admin Server Restore from a Managed Backup Exec Server
- Appendix C: Remote Administration Console
- Installing Backup Exec 16 Remote Administration Console
- Veritas Backup Exec 15: Manage and Administer
- Data deduplication and Open Storage Technology: Fundamentals
- Enabling the deduplication option
- Configuring Backup Exec deduplication storage
- Exclusion from Windows deduplication
- Configuring OST device
- Deduplication backup job
- Configuring client-side deduplication
- Rehydration
- Optimized duplication
- Protecting Backup Exec deduplication storage
- Best practices for the deduplication option
- Introduction to Remote Agent, Applications and Databases
- Agent for Windows
- Push-installing the Agent for Windows using the Add Server Wizard
- Locally installing the Agent for Windows
- Managing the Agent for Windows
- Agent for Applications and Databases fundamentals
- Enabling the Agent for Applications and Databases feature
- Protecting Microsoft Exchange Server
- What’s new in Exchange 2016
- Backup Exec Agent for Microsoft Exchange: Installation
- Backing up a DAG
- Exchange backup selections
- Exchange backup settings
- Exchange Preferred Servers Only backups
- Restoring Exchange Data
- Exchange Database Restore
- GRT Browse Restore
- GRT Search Restore
- Restore Considerations: GRT
- Restore Considerations: Public Folders
- Restore Considerations: Site Mailbox
- Restore Considerations: Database Overwrite
- Restore Considerations: RDB
- Restore Considerations: Disaster Recovery
- Volume Shadow Copy
- Troubleshooting: VSS Provider and Exchange Writer
- Protecting Microsoft SQL Server
- Microsoft SQL server agent: Installation
- SQL backup selections
- SQL backup settings
- Restoring a Microsoft SQL server database
- Unsupported Microsoft SQL server features
- Protecting Microsoft SharePoint Server
- SharePoint Agent overview
- Adding a SharePoint server Farm
- Backing up SharePoint
- Restoring SharePoint
- Protecting Microsoft Active Directory
- Agent for Microsoft Active Directory
- Traditional Active Directory Restore
- Active Directory: Granular Recovery Technology
- Protecting Virtual Environments
- Virtualization technologies
- Backup Exec virtualization Agents
- Installing Agent for VMware and Hyper-V
- Backing up virtual machines
- Instant recovery for virtual machines
- Removing an Instantly recovered virtual machine
- Restoring virtual machines
- Performing Virtual Machine Conversions
- Conversion to virtual machine fundamentals
- One-time convert to virtual
- Backup and convert simultaneously
- Backup and convert to virtual machine on schedule
- Convert from a backup set
- Virtual conversion options
- Conversion considerations
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