Acquire the skills to make your data protection strategy successful with the Veritas NetBackup 8.1.2: Advanced Administration course. You will learn advanced NetBackup topics, including NetBackup performance, disaster recovery, application backups on physical and virtual machines, virtual machine accelerator backups, and security. This course also covers using NetBackup to manage Oracle, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SQL, and Microsoft SharePoint database backups.

Improve NetBackup performance by addressing bottlenecks, tuning NetBackup buffers, and becoming familiar with NetBackup performance enhancing features.
 Prepare for common disasters and plan for disaster recovery using optimized duplication, Auto Image Replication, and MSDP catalog protection policies.
 Describe requirements for backing up third-party applications and databases.
 Configure NetBackup to back up and restore Oracle, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SQL, and Microsoft SharePoint databases.
 Discuss strategies for Oracle, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SQL, and Microsoft SharePoint database recovery.
 Configure, run, and manage backups for applications running in virtual machines.
 Configure accelerator for VMware virtual machines.
 Ensure your NetBackup environment is secure using encryption, auditing, authentication, and authorization.

This course is intended for technical professionals responsible for the design, configuration, operation, monitoring, or support of NetBackup

Students should be familiar with general network and storage concepts, and the administration and configuration of Windows or Linux operating systems. Students must also have one to three years experience with basic NetBackup administration, configuration, and operation. These prerequisites can be met by attending any version of the NetBackup Administration course plus additional on-the-job experience.

Reviewing NetBackup Concepts

Understanding the NetBackup environment
Using NetBackup Administrative interfaces
Using NetBackup in an enterprise environment
Improving NetBackup Performance

 NetBackup performance overview
 Addressing performance issues
 Managing True Image Restore and synthetic backups
 Managing FlashBackup backups
 Using Network Resiliency
Preparing for Disaster Recovery

 Disaster recovery strategies
 Protecting the NetBackup infrastructure
 Introduction to Auto Image Replication
 Configuring Auto Image Replication
 Monitoring Auto Image Replication
 Managing and maintaining Auto Image Replication
Performing Disaster Recovery

 Recovering the NetBackup infrastructure
 Controlling media servers used for restores
 Restoring from a replicated and imported image
Optimizing NetBackup Deduplication

 Understanding MSDP architecture
 Improving deduplication backup performance
 Optimizing deduplication restores and rehydration
 Protecting the MSDP backup data and catalog]
Managing NDMP Backups

 Introduction to NetBackup for NDMP
 Preparing for NDMP backups
 Configuring local NDMP backup
 Configuring remote NDMP backups
 Preparing for NDMP backups
 Protecting a NetApp cDOT NDMP filer
Application Backup Concepts

 Understanding application needs
 Database backup and restore concepts
 Customizing generic application backups
Managing Oracle Backups

 Introduction to the Oracle database
 Configuring Oracle database backups
 Monitoring and maintaining Oracle database backups
 Oracle database disaster recovery considerations
Managing Microsoft SQL Backups

 Introduction to Microsoft SQL Server
 Configuring SQL Server Intelligent Policies
 Monitoring SQL Server database backups
 SQL Server disaster recovery considerations
Managing Microsoft SharePoint Backups

 Introduction to Microsoft SharePoint Server
 Configuring NetBackup for SharePoint policies
 SharePoint disaster recovery considerations
Managing Microsoft Exchange Backups

 Introduction to Microsoft Exchange Server
 Configuring NetBackup for Exchange
 Exchange and high availability environments
 Monitoring and maintaining Exchange database backups
 Exchange disaster recovery considerations
Enhancing Virtual Machine Protection

 Protecting virtual machines with applications
 Using NetBackup Accelerator for virtual machine backups
 Restoring individual VDMK files
Securing the NetBackup Environment

 Understanding security concerns in a backup environment
 Securing NetBackup port communication
 Encrypting NetBackup data
 Configuring NetBackup with access control
 Auditing NetBackup
 Understanding security certificates
Implementing NetBackup Cloud Solutions

 Using the cloud with NetBackup
 Configure NetBackup cloud storage
 Managing NetBackup cloud storage and cloud backups