• Exercise D: Installing NetBackup media server software
• Exercise E: Installing NetBackup client software
• Exercise F: Exploring the NetBackup Administration

• Exercise G: Viewing NetBackup Host Properties

• NetBackup Web User Interface
• Managing role-based access control
• Configuring NetBackup for Single Sign-On
• Configuring storage
• Managing credentials
• Protecting workload assets
• Monitoring 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

• NetBackup storage device concepts
• Configuring and managing a basic disk storage unit
• Configuring storage unit groups
• Configuring AdvancedDisk
• Managing AdvancedDisk Storage

Labs:
• Exercise A: Viewing disk storage on a NetBackup server system
• Exercise B: Configuring a Basic Disk storage unit
• Exercise C: Identifying AdvancedDisk storage server
• Exercise D: Configuring an AdvancedDisk Disk Pool
• Exercise E: Verifying AdvancedDisk configuration
• Exercise F: Configuring a policy to write backups to AdvancedDisk storage
• Exercise G: Performing and monitoring backups to AdvancedDisk storage
• Exercise H: Monitoring and managing AdvancedDisk disk pools
• Exercise I: Configuring a storage unit group

• Introduction to backup policies
• Creating and configuring policy attributes
• Creating a policy schedule
• Adding client to a policy
• Creating backup selections
• Managing policies

Labs:
• Exercise A: Configuring a policy to use frequency-based schedules
• Exercise B: Configuring a policy to use calendar-based schedules
• Exercise C: Copying a policy to create a new policy

• 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 BAR interface
• Performing restore operations using OpsCenter Operational Restore
• Restore job-related tips

Labs:
• Exercise A: Using the Activity Monitor
• Exercise B: Performing manual backups
• Exercise C: Viewing job details
• Exercise D: Deactivating and activating policies
• Exercise E: Performing user-initiated backups
• Exercise F: Becoming familiar with key restore settings in the BAR user interface
• Exercise G: Restoring client files to their original location
• Exercise H: Restoring client files to an alternate file system location
• Exercise I: Restoring client files to an alternate client system
Exercise J: Using the OpsCenter Operational Restore
feature (Optional)

• 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 host ID-based certificate details
• Exercise B: Manually deploying the CA certificate on a NetBackup client
• Exercise C: Manually deploying the host-id certificate on a NetBackup host
• Exercise D: Revoking host ID-based certificates
• Exercise E: Configuring External Certificate Authority (ECA) on the NetBackup Master Server
• Exercise F: Configuring a NetBackup host to use an ECA-signed certificate
• Exercise G: Disabling an external CA in a NetBackup domain

• 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 an SLP
• Exercise C: SLP Host Properties
• Exercise D: Viewing and monitoring SLP operations

• File system backup challenges
• Optimizing file system backups
• Optimizing file system backups with NetBackup

• Using multiple data streams
• Optimizing tape drive performance using multiplexing
• Handling busy files on UNIX and Windows file systems

Labs:
• Exercise A: Optimizing backups using the NetBackup

Accelerator
• Exercise B: Configuring and using multiple data streams
• Exercise C: Configuring and performing multiplexed backups (Optional)

• 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 master
server using VxUpdate
• Exercise D: Initiating upgrades from the client using VxUpdate
• Exercise E: Viewing the deployment job status

• Introduction to MSDP
• Deduplication solutions
• MSDP architecture
• Planning your 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: Monitoring and managing NetBackup MSDP storage

• MSDP Cloud Support
• MSDP Online data integrity checking
• Optimizing deduplication restores and rehydration
• Monitoring MSDP
• MSDP Disaster Recover
Labs:
• Exercise A: Configuring MSDP Cloud
• Exercise B: Duplicating backups from local MSDP
storage to MSDP Cloud
• Exercise C: Performing Disaster Recovery
• Exercise D: (Optional) Examining MSDP cloud
configuration files
• Exercise E: (Optional) Verifying Data Integrity Checks

• Ransomware overview
• NetBackup protection against Ransomware
• Configuring NetBackup WORM protection
Labs:
• Exercise A: Configuring NetBackup WORM storage
server instance
• Exercise B: Configuring Disk Pool and WORM Storage
Unit
• Exercise C: Configuring NetBackup Policy
• Exercise D: Understanding catalog operations on WORM image copy

• Understanding VMware backups
• Performing VMware backups
• Performing VMware restores
• Instant Access for VMware
• VMware Agentless Restore

Labs:
• Exercise A: Verifying the VMware environment
Exercise B: Configuring NetBackup to perform VMware
backups
• Exercise C: Installing the NetBackup Plug-in for VMware
vSphere Web Client
• Exercise D: Configuring a VMware policy
• Exercise E: Performing and monitoring VMware virtual
machine backups
• Exercise F: Excluding disks from a VMware virtual
machine backup
• Exercise G: Managing VMware assets using the
NetBackup Web UI
• Exercise H: Managing VMware credentials using Web UI
• Exercise I: Recovering virtual machine files
• Exercise J: Recovering a VMware virtual machine disk
• Exercise K: Recovering an entire VMware virtual
machine
• Exercise L: Using NetBackup Web UI to recover a virtual
machine to alternate location
• Exercise M: Using the Instant Access for VMware (Linux
only)

• NetBackup catalog: Overview
• NetBackup relational databases
• Catalog backup and recovery
• Maintaining the NBDB

Labs:
• Exercise A: Running NetBackup reports
• Exercise B: Verifying, expiring, and importing backup
images
• Exercise C: Configuring and running NetBackup catalog
backups
• Exercise D: Recovering the catalogs using the NetBackup Catalog Recovery wizard

• Generating reports in NetBackup
• Generating reports using OpsCenter
• Generating reports using APTARE IT Analytics
Labs:
• Exercise A: Generating reports in NetBackup Admin
Console
• Exercise B: Generating reports using OpsCenter

• Introduction to NetBackup APIs
• NetBackup Integration with Veritas Resiliency Platform
• NetBackup Integration with Access Appliance 3340
(7.4.2)
• NetBackup Integration with Enterprise Vault

• Performing basic NetBackup troubleshooting
• Identifying NetBackup processes, services, and
daemons
• NetBackup logging overview
• Using the support utilities
• Using NetBackup support resources

Labs:
• Exercise A: Viewing the 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

• Understanding 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
• 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

• Introduction to NetBackup for Hyper-V
• Configuring Hyper-V backups
• Performing and Monitoring Hyper-V backups
• Performing Hyper-V restores
• Performing Hyper-V restores with the NetBackup Add-in
for SCVMM

Labs:
• Exercise A: Configuring NetBackup communication with Hyper-V
• Exercise B: Configuring a Hyper-V Intelligent Policy and backing up Hyper-V virtual machines
• Exercise C: Restoring individual files
• Exercise D: Restoring the full Hyper-V machine
• Exercise E: Performing Hyper-V backups and restores in an SCVMM environment

• Using VMware Instant Recovery

VMware Instant Recovery: Differences
• VMware Instant Recovery: Process
• Working with the NetBackup plug-in in vSphere Web
Client
• Instant Recovery Cleanup
• Executing the nbrestorevm command
Labs:
• Exercise A: Verifying the VMware environment
• Exercise B: Performing non-NetBackup pre-requisite tasks for IRV
• Exercise C: Performing NetBackup pre-requisite tasks for IRV
• Exercise D: Performing Instant Recovery for VMware (IRV) using the vSphere Web Client