Veritas NetBackup 8.2: Administration Course Overview:

The Veritas NetBackup 8.2: Administration course is designed to provide participants with the necessary skills to successfully implement and manage a data protection strategy using Veritas NetBackup 8.2. Throughout the course, participants will learn about the general principles, configuration, and administration of NetBackup.

Key topics covered in the course include understanding the architecture and components of NetBackup, configuring and managing backup policies and schedules, performing backup and restore operations, monitoring and reporting on backup operations, and ensuring data recovery objectives are met.

Participants will also gain practical knowledge on how to utilize the various tools and interfaces provided by NetBackup to optimize their data protection strategy. This includes exploring features such as the NetBackup Administration Console, NetBackup OpsCenter, and command-line interfaces.

By the end of the course, participants will be equipped with the skills necessary to effectively administer and monitor their NetBackup environment. They will be able to configure and manage backup policies, troubleshoot common issues, and ensure data protection and recovery objectives are met.

Intended Audience:

This course is intended for technical professionals responsible for the design, configuration, operation, monitoring, or support of NetBackup.

By the completion of this course, you will be able to:

• Discuss the challenges of performing backups in today’s enterprise computing environments.
• Describe the functions of the master server, media servers, and clients.
• Diagram the NetBackup product architecture.
• Define common terms used in the NetBackup product.
• Describe how NetBackup backs up and restores data.
• Identify NetBackup options and agents.
• Use the NetBackup Administration Console and OpsCenter.
• Configure and manage basic disk storage units and storage unit groups.
• Configure file system backup policies and schedules.
• Perform manual backups and user-directed backups.
• Restore files using the Java or Windows BAR interface and OpsCenter Operational Restore.
• Monitor NetBackup backup and restore jobs and perform basic troubleshooting and information gathering steps related to failing jobs.
• Configure and manage AdvancedDisk storage units and disk pools.
• Configure tape-based devices and volume pools; perform a robot inventory.
• Manage robot and tape drive settings, including media sharing.
• Monitor and manage media and media states.
• Configure, run, and manage virtual machine backups using VMware.
• Discuss other supported virtualization methods. Recover virtual machines, including using VMware Instant Recovery.
• Use the integrated NetBackup vSphere Web Client Plug-in for VMware.
• Describe the various methods of backup image duplication.
• Configure Storage Lifecycle Policies (SLPs) and initiate jobs that use SLPs.
• Manage the NetBackup catalog to search for, verify, duplicate, import, and expire backup images.
• Back up and recover the NetBackup catalogs.
• Optimize file system backups using incremental backups, True Image Restore, synthetic backups, NetBackup Accelerator, multiple data streams, and multiplexing.
• Identify and use resources for troubleshooting NetBackup, including the support information gathering tools related