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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