Veritas NetBackup 8.

2: Administration

Course Introduction

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This is the Course Introduction in the Veritas NetBackup 8.2: Administration course.

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 Topic: About this course

This course is designed to help technical professionals responsible for the

design, configuration, operation, monitoring, or support of Veritas
NetBackup 8.2.

This course is designed to help technical professionals responsible for the design,
configuration, operation, monitoring, or support of Veritas NetBackup 8.2.

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Intended audience

This course is intended for NetBackup administrators responsible for:

• Configuring devices and storage units
• Configuring and managing media
• Creating and configuring backup policies
• Performing backups and restores
• Protecting the backup data and configuration

Administering a backup environment for a company or an organization is a complicated

undertaking performed by a team of administrators, operators, and technical engineers,
each with specific tasks. This course is intended for system or network administrators,
system engineers, technical support personnel, and system integration and
development staff who are responsible for configuring devices and storage units,
configuring and managing media, creating and configuring backup policies, performing
backups and restores, and protecting the backup data and configuration.
Course prerequisites
Students attending this course should be familiar with:
• UNIX or Windows system administration.
• Storage area network (SAN) concepts.
• Data protection concepts and terminology.

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Course objectives

• Create and configure storage units and storage unit groups.

• Create backup policies that define the rules NetBackup follows.
• Back up and restore data for physical and virtual machine clients.
• Configure AdvancedDisk and NetBackup deduplication storage.
• Configure drives and robots for NetBackup.
• Configure media by defining volumes, volume pools, and volume groups.
• Protect your data with duplication and storage lifecycle policies.
• Protect your NetBackup configuration.

After completing this course, you will be able to perform the tasks listed on this slide.

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Lessons in this course
• Lesson 0: Course Introduction
• Lesson 1: Introducing NetBackup
• Lesson 2: Configuring NetBackup Storage
• Lesson 3: Configuring Policies
• Lesson 4: Performing File System Backups
• Lesson 5: Performing File System Restores
• Lesson 6: Configuring Disk Pools
• Lesson 7: Configuring Media Server Deduplication
• Lesson 8: Configuring and managing Tape Storage
• Lesson 9: Performing VMware Backups
• Lesson 10: Performing VMware Restores
• Lesson 11: Protecting Hyper-V environment
• Lesson 12: Duplicating Backups Using Storage
Lifecycle Policies
• Lesson 13: Managing and Protecting the
NetBackup Catalog
• Lesson 14: Optimizing File System Backups
• Lesson 15: Collecting Logs and Diagnostic
Information

The lessons covered in the NetBackup 8.2 Administration course are displayed on the
slide. The course is structured by going through a number of general steps:
• Lessons 1-5 set the framework for understanding NetBackup, covering basic concepts
such as storage units, backup policies, and how to perform backups and restores of
file systems.
• Lessons 6-8 show how to configure and manage various storage types, including
AdvancedDisk, NetBackup deduplication, and tape libraries.
• Lessons 9-11 cover the protection and recovery of virtual machines, highlighting
VMware and Hyper-V backup and recovery in detail.
• Lesson 12 covers duplicating backups and storage lifecycle policies (SLP) specifically.
• Lesson 13 discusses the management of backup images and protection of the
NetBackup catalog.
• Lesson 14 covers many features to optimize backups to file systems through change
tracking, and other NetBackup features.
• Lesson 15 shows how to collect logs and other diagnostic information, setting the
ground work for troubleshooting, and contacting Veritas Support.

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 Topic: Education and support resources

This topic describes Veritas Education offerings and other Veritas resources
available to help you design, configure, operate, monitor, or support Veritas
NetBackup 8.2.

This topic describes Veritas Education offerings and other Veritas resources available to
help you design, configure, operate, monitor, or support Veritas NetBackup 8.2.

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Veritas Open eXchange
https://vox.veritas.com/

• The latest technology articles from

industry experts
• Easy and fast access to technical content
and product information
• Access to premium content, such as
book previews and free sample chapters
• Peer-to-peer discussion forums
• Training and education resources
Find out more. It’s free!

The Veritas Open eXchange allows customers and users of Veritas products to network
get help and learn more about industry-leading solutions. Veritas Open eXchange is a
customer-focused resource, intended to help you design and implement a utility
computing strategy to provide availability, performance, and automation for your
storage, servers, and applications. Veritas Open eXchange provides the following
resources:
• Technical documents, such as articles, white papers, and product specs.
• Interactive services, such as the discussion forum, where members can discuss
current topics, share tips and tricks, and help one another troubleshoot problems.
Best of all, it is free. Sign up to become a member at https://vox.veritas.com/.

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SORT for NetBackup users
http://sort.veritas.com/netbackup

Veritas Services and Operations Readiness Tools (SORT) is a set of Web-based tools that
optimizes the end to end experience for Veritas products, such as Storage Foundation
and NetBackup. SORT for NetBackup provides information on whether your
environment is compatible with a NetBackup installation or upgrade, and gives you links
to the latest documentation and software. SORT for NetBackup is available at:
http://sort.veritas.com/netbackup.

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MyVeritas
https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US.html

MyVeritas is your single destination that allows you to access all of your Veritas
enterprise services and information. Visit https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US.html
to view this page.

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Veritas Education Services: Links
https://www.veritas.com/services/education-services.html

• Curriculum Paths: Backup & Recovery, Information Governance, Storage &

Availability

• Get Certified in NetBackup and other Veritas products

• View FAQs about Education Services

• Manage your training transcript and print certificates of completion by signing

in to the Veritas Learning Portal

Visit the Veritas Education Services page to learn more about Veritas product training
and certification at: https://www.veritas.com/services/education-services.html. This
slide displays links related to curriculum paths, Veritas certification, and other training
related information.
• Curriculum Paths: Backup & Recovery, Information Governance, Storage &
Availability.
• Get Certified in NetBackup and other Veritas products.
• View FAQs about Education Services.
• Manage your training transcript and print certificates of completion by signing in to
the Veritas Learning Portal.

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End of presentation

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