NBA11: Cohesity NetBackup 11.0: Administration

Course Information

Course Name

NBA11: Cohesity NetBackup 11.0: Administration

Duration

5 Days

Overview

This instructor-led, 40-hour course provides NetBackup administrators, sales engineers, operators, implementation consultants, and support engineers with fundamental concepts, configuration, and management of NetBackup. It also teaches them how to utilize the NetBackup tools and interfaces, create and monitor backup and restore operations, and ensure that the data recovery objectives are met.

This course serves as a prerequisite for Cohesity NetBackup 10.0: Advanced Administration.

Audience Profile

This course is designed for:

• Cohesity NetBackup Operators & Administrators

• Cohesity Professional Services Engineers

• Cohesity Sales Engineers

• Implementation consultants

• Support Engineers

Prerequisites

• UNIX/Linux or Windows system administration.

• Data protection concepts and terminology.

• Storage concepts.

• Virtualization and cloud technologies.

• Basic networking and system security awareness

At Course Completion

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

• Describe the functions of the Primary server, Media servers, and clients in a NetBackup environment.

• Explain how NetBackup performs backup and restore operations.

• Demonstrate the use of the NetBackup Administration Console, Web User Interface, and NetBackup IT Analytics for daily operations.

• Configure and manage NetBackup security certificates to ensure secure operations.

• Set up and monitor BasicDisk and AdvancedDisk storage units and storage unit groups.

• Develop file system backup policies and schedules to meet organizational requirements.

• Perform manual and user-directed backups and restores using various NetBackup interfaces.

• Provision storage and configure Media Server Deduplication Pool (MSDP) for optimized storage usage.

• Implement backup and recovery for virtual environments such as VMware.

• Configure Storage Lifecycle Policies (SLPs) and initiate jobs that utilize SLPs.

• Protect and manage the NetBackup catalog to ensure recoverability of backup data.

• Apply NetBackup WORM protection and performance optimization techniques.

• Generate and interpret NetBackup reports for operational and compliance needs.

• Initiate NetBackup upgrades using VxUpdate and identify resources for troubleshooting.

Course Outline

Module 1: Introducing NetBackup

• Data Protection and the NetBackup Environment

• NetBackup-Powered Backup Appliances: Overview

• NetBackup Integrated Solutions

• NetBackup Installation

• NetBackup Administration Interfaces

Module 2: 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

Module 3: 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

Module 4: Configuring Basic and Advanced Disk Storage

• NetBackup Storage Device Concepts

• Configuring a BasicDisk Storage Unit

• Configuring AdvancedDisk

• Managing AdvancedDisk Storage

• Configuring Storage Unit Groups

Module 5: 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

Module 6: Protecting File Systems

• Performing Manual Backup Operations

• Using and Customizing the NetBackup Activity Monitor

• Backup Job-related Tips

• Introduction to Restores

• Performing Restore Operations Using the NetBackup Web UI

• Performing User-directed Backups

• Performing Restore Operations Using the BAR Interface on a Client Machine

• Performing Restore Operations Using the BAR Interface

Module 7: Configuring Media Server Deduplication

• Introducing MSDP

• MSDP Architecture

• Planning a Deployment

• Provisioning Storage and Configuring MSDP

Module 8: Configuring Cloud Storage

• Using the Cloud with NetBackup

• MSDP Cloud Support

• Memory-Efficient Dedup Service

• MSDP Cloud Immutable (WORM) Storage

• Image Sharing using MSDP Cloud

Module 9: Optimizing Filesystem Backups

• Filesystem Backup Challenges

• Optimizing Filesystem Backups

• Optimizing Filesystem Backups with NetBackup Accelerator

• NetBackup FlashBackup

• Using Multiple Data Streams

• Handling Busy Files on UNIX/Linux and Windows Filesystems

Module 10: Protecting VMware Environments

• Introducing Virtual Machine Backups

• Configuring VMware Backups

• Continuous Data Protection for VMware

• Performing and Monitoring VMware Backup

Module 11: Recovering VMware Environments

• Performing VMware Restores

• Instant Access and Instant Rollback for VMware

• VMware Agentless Restores

Module 12: Duplicating and Replicating Backups

• Duplication Strategies

• Storage Lifecycle Policy: Concepts

• Using Storage Lifecycle Policies

• Additional Storage Lifecycle Policy Features

Module 13: Protecting the NetBackup Catalog

• Understanding the NetBackup Catalog

• Managing Images

• Protecting the NetBackup Catalog

• Performing NetBackup Catalog Recovery

Module 14: Mitigating the Impact of Ransomware

• Ransomware: Overview

• NetBackup Protection Against Ransomware

• Backup Anomaly Detection

• NetBackup Malware Scanning

Module 15: Generating NetBackup Reports

• Generating Reports in NetBackup

• NetBackup IT Analytics: Overview

• Generating NetBackup Reports in NetBackup IT Analytics

Module 16: Upgrading and Updating NetBackup

• NetBackup Upgrades: Overview

• Planning for an Upgrade: Overview

• Primary Server Upgrade: Overview

• Media Server Upgrade: Overview

• MSDP Upgrade for NetBackup

• Client upgrade: Overview

• NetBackup Deployment with VxUpdate

Module 17: 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

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