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Course Name:   Symantec NetBackup 7.0 for Windows, Administration Training
     
Deployment Options:   Onsite - Instructor-Led Training
     
Course Duration:   5 days depending on audience background and options
 
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Introduction:
 

This Symantec NetBackup 7.0 Administration provides the IT professional with instruction on the functionality of Symantec NetBackup 7.0 software. This course covers the general principles of using NetBackup to develop and implement a storage management strategy, including how to:

  • Install, configure, and operate NetBackup 7.0.
  • Manage NetBackup using the graphical interfaces, commands, and scripts.
  • Provide service protection and recovery.
  • Use the activity monitor and logs to monitor NetBackup processes.
 
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This 5-day Symantec course will be customized to your needs and specifications. Eno.com will assist you in identifying those needs and specifications. A word to the wise, there are many vendors of Symantec training. They will typically have a broad and general course, one size fits all, already developed and just put your organization's name on the title slide. This minimizes their effort and time investment. At Eno.com, every course is made to your exact and exacting specifications. We help you ensure what you are getting is what you really need even if at the beginning you weren't too sure of what that was. We fit the class to your needs. We ever fit you into our standard, one size fits all, class.
 
Audience:
 
This course is for system administrators, system engineers, technical support personnel, and system integration staff who are responsible for the design, performance optimization, and troubleshooting of NetBackup.
 
Prerequisite
 
Students must be familiar with the administration and configuration of the platforms that are covered by the course.
 
Course Objectives:
 

This course provides instruction on NetBackup 7.0 and covers how to develop and implement a storage management strategy. At the completion of the course, you will be able to:

  • Discuss the challenges of performing backups in today’s enterprises.
  • Describe the functions of the master, media, and EMM 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 NBU options and agents.
  • Install and verify NetBackup and OpsCenter.
  • Use the NBU Administration Console and OpsCenter.
  • Add robots and drives.
  • Configure storage units, storage unit groups, volumes, and volume pools.
  • Manage volumes.
  • Configure policy attributes and schedules.
  • Identify the available policy types.
  • Define which files, directories, and clients to back up. Monitor and troubleshoot backup jobs.
  • Restore files and monitor restore jobs.
  • Describe how NetBackup selects which media to use.
  • Distribute client software.
  • Verify, duplicate, expire, and import backup images.
  • Back up and recover NBU catalogs.
  • Run basic NetBackup and OpsCenter reports.
  • Configure multiple data streams, multiplexing, synthetic backups, true image restores, and checkpoint restart.
  • Configure NetBackup to protect supported VMware and Hyper-V virtual clients.
  • Configure media groups and media ownership for media sharing.
  • Configure and manage disk pools.
  • Configure advanced staging using storage lifecycle policies.
  • Identify master server, EMM, media server, and client processes or services.
  • Identify the resources available for troubleshooting NetBackup.
 
Course Outline
 
NetBackup Essentials

•The challenges of enterprise backup
•The NetBackup environment
•NetBackup concepts
•NetBackup options and agents

Installing and Configuring NetBackup

•Preinstallation considerations
•Installing and verifying your NetBackup installation
•Installing NetBackup clients
•Configuring NetBackup
•Upgrade considerations
•NetBackup installation tips

Introduction to NetBackup Administrative Interfaces

•The NetBackup Administration Console
•The command-line interface (CLI)
•NetBackup OpsCenter

Configuring Tape Devices

•Shared tape drives
•Adding robots
•Adding tape drives
•Monitoring shared tape drives
•Monitoring and maintaining devices
•Devices tips

Configuring Storage Units

•Storage units
•Configuring storage units
•Storage unit tips

Configuring Volumes

•Configuring volume pools
•Configuring volumes
•Managing physical volumes
•Volume tips

Configuring Policies

•Creating and configuring policy attributes
•Creating a policy schedule
•Adding clients to a policy
•Creating backup selections
•Backup policy tips

Performing Backups and Restores

•Performing manual backup operations
•Performing restore operations
•Backup and restore tips

Managing Media

•NetBackup media states and selection criteria
•Determining media status
•Configuring media sharing
•Maximizing tape utilization
•Media-related tips

Getting Started with NetBackup Reporting

•Reporting using the NetBackup Administration Console
•Reporting using OpsCenter
•OpsCenter Analytics

Administrative Tasks and Challenges
•Distributing client software
•Managing backup images
•Backup copies and duplication
•Managing busy files
•Managing job priorities
•Managing user authentication and authorization

Performing Catalog Backups and Restores

•NetBackup catalogs
•Catalog backups
•Manual catalog backup configuration
•Disaster recovery
•Catalog-related tips

Customizing Backup Policies
•Using multiple data streams
•Multiplexing backup images
•Specialized backup solutions
•Protecting virtual clients
•Additional policy options

Using Disk Pools
•Introduction to disk features
•Pooling disk resources
•Configuring disk pools
•Managing disk pools

NBU Media Server Deduplication
•Introduction to deduplication
•Verifying the NetBackup media server deduplication installation
•Configuring NetBackup media server deduplication
•Monitoring deduplication
•Configuring client-side deduplication

Using Storage Lifecycles

•Introduction to storage lifecycles
•Satisfying storage lifecycle prerequisites
•Creating a storage lifecycle policy
•Additional storage lifecycle considerations
•A storage lifecycle example

Working with Support
•Support resources
•NetBackup processes, services, and daemons
•Enabling debug logs
 

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