Veritas NetBackup 9.1: Administration

Course Outline

Introducing NetBackup

• Data Protection and the NetBackup Environment
• NetBackup and Flex Appliances: Overview
• NetBackup Integrated Solutions
• NetBackup Installation
• NetBackup Administration Interfaces
• Lab Exercise A: Creating Users and Groups
• Lab Exercise B: Installing the NetBackup Primary/Master Server Software
• Lab Exercise C: Installing the NetBackup Java Remote Administration Console
• Lab Exercise D: Installing the NetBackup Media Server Software
• Lab Exercise E: Installing the NetBackup Client Software
• Lab Exercise F: Exploring the NetBackup Administration Console

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
• Lab Exercise A: Accessing and Navigating the NetBackup Web User Interface
• Lab Exercise B: Configuring Role-based Access Control
• Lab Exercise C: Configuring NetBackup for Single Sign-On
• Lab Exercise D: Viewing and Configuring Notifications
• Lab Exercise E: Managing User Sessions

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
• Lab Exercise A: Viewing NetBackup Certificates
• Lab Exercise B: Manually deploying NetBackup Certificates
• Lab Exercise C: Revoking and Reissuing Host ID-based Certificates
• Lab Exercise D: Using External Certificates with NetBackup

Configuring Basic and Advanced Disk Storage

• NetBackup Storage Device Concepts
• Configuring a BasicDisk Storage Unit
• Configuring AdvancedDisk
• Managing AdvancedDisk Storage
• Configuring Storage Unit Groups
• Lab Exercise A: Configuring a BasicDisk Storage Unit
• Lab Exercise B: Configuring AdvancedDisk Storage
• Lab Exercise C: Monitoring and Managing AdvancedDisk Storage
• Lab Exercise D: Configuring a Storage Unit Group

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
• Lab Exercise A: Configuring a Policy to Use a Frequency-based Schedule
• Lab Exercise B: Configuring a Policy to Use a Calendar-based Schedule
• Lab Exercise C: Managing NetBackup Policies

Protecting File Systems

• 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 NetBackup Web UI
• Performing Restore Operations Using the BAR interface
• Lab Exercise A: Using and Customizing the Activity Monitor
• Lab Exercise B: Performing Manual Backups
• Lab Exercise C: Performing User-initiated Backups
• Lab Exercise D: Restoring Client Files to their Original Location
• Lab Exercise E: Restoring Client Files to an Alternate File System Location
• Lab Exercise F: Restoring Client Files to an Alternate Client System

Configuring Media Server Deduplication

• Introduction to MSDP
• Variable-Length Deduplication
• MSDP Architecture
• Planning a Deployment
• Provisioning Storage and Configuring MSDP
• Lab Exercise A: Configuring NetBackup Media Server Deduplication
• Lab Exercise B: Configuring a Policy to Use MSDP Storage
• Lab Exercise C: Performing Backups to MSDP Storage
• Lab Exercise D: Configuring and Using Client-side Deduplication
• Lab Exercise E: Managing and Monitoring NetBackup MSDP Storage

Configuring Cloud Storage

• Using the Cloud with NetBackup
• Configure NetBackup Cloud Storage
• Managing NetBackup Cloud Backups and Cloud Storage
• Lab Exercise A: Performing Preliminary Tasks
• Lab Exercise B: Configuring Cloud Storage in NetBackup
• Lab Exercise C: Configuring and Performing Backups to the Cloud
• Lab Exercise D: Restoring Client Data from Cloud-based Storage

Optimizing Filesystem Backups

• File System Backup Challenges
• Optimizing File System Backups
• Optimizing File System Backups with NetBackup Accelerator
• NetBackup FlashBackup
• Using multiple data streams
• Handling Busy Files on UNIX and Windows File Systems
• Lab Exercise A: Configuring and Performing Synthetic Backups
• Lab Exercise B: Optimizing Backups Using the NetBackup Accelerator
• Lab Exercise C: Optimizing Backups Using NetBackup FlashBackup
• Lab Exercise D: Configuring and Using Multiple Data Streams

Protecting VMware Environments

• Introduction to Virtual Machine Backups
• Configuring VMware Backups
• Performing VMware Backups
• Lab Exercise A: Configuring NetBackup to Perform VMware Backups
• Lab Exercise B: Configuring a VMware Policy
• Lab Exercise C: Performing and Monitoring VMware Virtual Machine Backups
• Lab Exercise D: Excluding Disks from a VMware Virtual Machine Backup
• Lab Exercise E: Configuring Continuous Data Protection

Recovering VMware Environments

• Performing VMware Restores
• Instant Access and Instant Rollback for VMware
• VMware Agentless Restores
• Lab Exercise A: Recovering Virtual Machine Files (agent-based)
• Lab Exercise B: Recovering a VMware Virtual Machine Disk
• Lab Exercise C: Recovering an Entire VMware Virtual Machine
• Lab Exercise D: Using the VMware Agentless Restore
• Lab Exercise E: Downloading Files and Folders from a VM Backup Image
• Lab Exercise F: Creating Instant Access VM from a NetBackup Backup Image
• Lab Exercise G: Instant Rollback for VMs
• Lab Exercise H: Performing Restores on CDP Protected Backup

Duplicating and Replicating Backups

• Duplication Strategies
• Storage Lifecycle Policy: Concepts
• Using Storage Lifecycle Policies
• Additional Storage Lifecycle Policy Features and Benefits
• Lab Exercise A: Configuring a Storage Lifecycle Policy
• Lab Exercise B: Configuring a Policy to Use an SLP
• Lab Exercise C: Customizing SLP Settings
• Lab Exercise D: Viewing and Monitoring SLP Operations
• Lab Exercise E: Using SLPs to Perform MSDP Optimized Duplication
• Lab Exercise F: Configuring SLPs for Replicating Backup Images

Protecting the NetBackup Catalog

• Understanding NetBackup Catalog
• Protecting the NetBackup Catalog
• Performing NetBackup Catalog Recovery
• Maintaining the NetBackup Catalog
• Lab Exercise A: Verifying Catalog Configuration Files
• Lab Exercise B: Configuring and Running NetBackup Catalog Backups
• Lab Exercise C: Recovering the Catalogs Using the NetBackup Catalog Recovery Wizard
• Lab Exercise D: Performing Catalog Operations
• Lab Exercise E: Configuring a Policy for Catalog Archive

Configuring Immutable and Indelible Storage

• Ransomware Overview
• NetBackup Protect Against Ransomware
• Configuring NetBackup WORM Protection
• Backup Anomaly Detection
• Lab Exercise A: Configuring Disk Pool and WORM Storage Unit
• Lab Exercise B: Configuring NetBackup Policy
• Lab Exercise C: Understanding Catalog Operations on WORM Image Copy
• Lab Exercise D: Configuring and Identifying Backup Anomaly

Generating NetBackup Reports

• Generating Reports in NetBackup
• NetBackup OpsCenter
• Generating NetBackup Reports in OpsCenter
• Generating Reports Using APTARE IT Analytics
• Lab Exercise A: Using the NetBackup Reports Utility
• Lab Exercise B: Configuring OpsCenter Data Collection for NetBackup
• Lab Exercise C: Generating Reports Using OpsCenter

Upgrading and Updating NetBackup

• NetBackup Upgrades: Overview
• VxUpdate: Overview
• Deployment Policy Management
• Initiating Upgrades Using VxUpdate
• VxUpdate: Error Codes
• Lab Exercise A: Populating the Repository with NetBackup Packages
• Lab Exercise B: Configuring a Deployment Policy
• Lab Exercise C: Manually Initiating Upgrades from the Primary/Master Server Using VxUpdate
• Lab Exercise D: Initiating Upgrades from the Client Using VxUpdate
• Lab Exercise E: Viewing the Deployment Job Status

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
• Lab Exercise A: Viewing the NetBackup Services
• Lab Exercise B: Using the nbsu and nbcplogs Commands
• Lab Exercise C: Viewing and Setting Debug Logging Properties
• Lab Exercise D: Enabling NetBackup Legacy Debug Logging
• Lab Exercise E: Viewing Debug Logging Levels for Unified Logs
• Lab Exercise F: Using the Logging Assistant

Appendix A: Protecting Hyper-V Environment

• 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
• Lab Exercise A: Configuring NetBackup Communication with Hyper-V
• Lab Exercise B: Configuring a Hyper-V Intelligent Policy and Backing Up Hyper-V Virtual Machines
• Lab Exercise C: Restoring Individual Files
• Lab Exercise D: Restoring the Full Hyper-V Machine
• Lab Exercise E: Performing Hyper-V Backups and Restores in an SCVMM Environment

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
• Dynamic NAS (DNAS) Data Protection
• Lab Exercise A: Authorizing NetBackup Access to NDMP Hosts
• Lab Exercise B: Configuring and Performing NDMP Backups
• Lab Exercise C: Using NetBackup Accelerator for NDMP
• Lab Exercise D: Performing NDMP Restores
• Lab Exercise E: Performing Prerequisite Tasks for D-NAS Configuration
• Lab Exercise F: Configuring and Performing D-NAS Backups
• Lab Exercise G: Restoring D-NAS 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
• Using Multiple Data Streams
• Optimizing Tape Drive Performance Using Multiplexing
• Troubleshooting Frozen and Suspended Media
• Lab Exercise A: Verifying and Discovering Tape Devices
• Lab Exercise B: Viewing Configured Tape Devices
• Lab Exercise C: Configuring Tape Devices
• Lab Exercise D: Configuring Volume Pools
• Lab Exercise E: Configuring Media
• Lab Exercise F: Viewing Tape Drive and Robot Configuration Settings
• Lab Exercise G: Using the Device Monitor to Monitor and Manage Tape Drives
• Lab Exercise H: Managing Media
• Lab Exercise I: Using the Robtest Utility
• Lab Exercise J: Running NetBackup Reports from the Command Line
• Lab Exercise K: Media State Management Using the Command Line

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
• Lab Exercise A: Performing Non-NetBackup Pre-requisite Tasks for IRV
• Lab Exercise B: Performing NetBackup Pre-requisite Tasks for IRV
• Lab Exercise C: Performing Instant Recovery for VMware Using the vSphere Web Client