Detailed Course Outline
Veritas Backup Exec 20.1: Install and Configure
Lesson 00: Course Introduction
- About this course
- Veritas education and support resources
Lesson 01: Backup Exec Fundamentals
- Data backup basics
- Backup Exec solution offerings
- Backup Exec architecture
- Backup Exec 20.1: EOL Items
Lesson 02: Licensing Backup Exec
- Subscription, Perpetual and À la carte Licensing
- Trialware and upgrades
- Capacity and subscription license enforcement
- Updated licensing information
- Capacity widget and capacity metering
- Maintenance and Extended Support Licensing
Lesson 03: Installing Backup Exec
- Backup Exec: New installation
- Typical installation of Backup Exec
- Custom installation of Backup Exec
- Installation details
- Applying Backup Exec updates
Lesson 04: Working with the Administration Console
- Launching Backup Exec
- Introduction to Backup and Restore
Lesson 05: Disk Storage Devices
- Backup Exec storage devices
- Configuring disk storage devices
- Configuring disk cartridge devices
- Configuring deduplication storage
- Configuring Backup Exec storage pools
- Managing disk storage devices
Lesson 06: Cloud-based Storage Devices
- Cloud storage
- Amazon S3 cloud-based storage
- Google cloud-based storage
- Microsoft Azure cloud-based storage
- Backup Exec requirements for creating cloud storage devices
- Configuring a cloud-storage device in Backup Exec
- Managing cloud-storage in Backup Exec
Lesson 07: Network Storage Devices
- Configuring network storage
Lesson 08: Disk, Network, and Cloud Data Management
- Managing disk and network data
- Data Lifecycle Management fundamentals
- DLM rules overview
- Dependent backup sets
- DLM rule
- Manual expiration and retention
- Read only setting
- Media Catalogs
Lesson 09: Tape Devices and Tape Management
- Configuring tape storage
- Managing tape devices
- Tape storage operations
- Managing tapes with media sets
- Tape Drive Auto Eject enhancements
Lesson 10: Backing up Data
- Adding a server
- Creating a backup job
- Working with multi-server backup definitions
- Accounts and credentials in Backup Exec
- Managing server selections
- Backup selections – Dynamic inclusion
- Backup selections – Resource ordering
- Backup selections – Excludes
- Adding a backup task
- Backup settings – Backup methods
- Backup settings – Additional settings
- Backup stage basics
- Job name fundamentals
- Manually running backup jobs
Lesson 11: Managing Servers and Jobs
- Backup and Restore view
- Server groups
- Backup selections – Tag as Business-Critical
- Retired servers group
Lesson 12: Restoring Data
- Viewing contents of backup sets
- Restore job basics
- Restore settings
- Granular restore technology (GRT)
- Restoring data from a single backup set
- Restoring data from multiple backup sets
- Restoring data from a cloud storage device
- Restoring data from disk storage
- Restoring data from tape
- Restoring data from backup job
- Online Disaster Recovery
- Restoring System State
- Shadow Copy Components
Lesson 13: Working with the Database Encryption Key
- Backup Exec Database sensitive data components
- Auto-generated AES-256 encryption key
- Protecting the Database Encryption Key (DEK)
Lesson 14: Simplified Disaster Recovery
- Simplified Disaster Recovery fundamentals
- Simplified Disaster Recovery – Backup
- Installing the SDR disk creation wizard
- Creating an SDR disk image (.iso) file
- Recovering a server with SDR
- Windows Storage Pools and Spaces
- SDR additional options
Lesson 15: Upgrading Backup Exec
- Upgrading the Backup Exec server
- BE CAS and MBES rolling upgrades
- Agent for Windows upgrade
- Migration report
Appendix A: Storage Devices
- Windows Storage Pools and Spaces
- Network Storage
- Remote Media Agent for Linux
- Robotic Libraries
- Importing a legacy backup-to-disk folder
Appendix B: Central Admin Server Feature
- Backup Exec CAS: Overview
- Installing the CAS
- Installing MBES
- Backup jobs: MBES and Server Pools
- Restoring Files using CAS
- Instant Recovery jobs
- MBES Settings
- Copy Configuration to MBES
- Upgrading a CAS environment to Backup Exec
- Renaming CAS and MBES
- MBES to Standalone
- Offline Central Admin Server Restore from a Managed Backup Exec Server
Appendix C: Remote Administration Console
- Installing Backup Exec 20.1 Remote Administration Console
- Configuring Backup Exec 20.1 Remote Administration Console
Veritas Backup Exec: Agents and Features
Lesson 00: Course Introduction
- About this course
- Veritas education and support resources
Lesson 01: Deduplication Feature
- Data deduplication and Open Storage Technology – Fundamentals
- Enabling the Deduplication Feature
- Configuring Backup Exec deduplication storage
- Exclusion from Windows deduplication
- Configuring OST device
- Deduplication backup job
- Configuring client-side deduplication
- Rehydration
- Optimized duplication
- Protecting Backup Exec deduplication storage
- Best practices for the Deduplication Feature
- OpenDedupe OST connector
- OpenDedupe installation and configuration
- Configuring OpenStorage in Backup Exec
Lesson 02: Introduction to Remote Agent, Applications and Databases
- Agent for Windows
- Push-installing the Agent for Windows using the Add Server Wizard
- Locally installing the Agent for Windows
- Managing the Agent for Windows
- Agent for Applications and Databases fundamentals
- Enabling the Agent for Applications and Databases feature
Lesson 03: Protecting Microsoft Exchange Server
- Backup Exec Agent for Microsoft Exchange: Installation
- Backing up a DAG
- Exchange backup selections
- Exchange backup settings
- Exchange Preferred Servers Only backups
- Restoring Exchange Data
- Exchange Database Restore
- GRT Browse Restore
- GRT Search Restore
- Restore Considerations: GRT
- Restore Considerations: Public Folders
- Restore Considerations: Site Mailbox
- Restore Considerations: Database Overwrite
- Restore Considerations: RDB
- Restore Considerations: Disaster Recovery
- Volume Shadow Copy
- Troubleshooting: VSS Provider and Exchange Writer
Lesson 04: Protecting Microsoft SQL Server
- Microsoft SQL server agent: Installation
- SQL backup selections
- SQL backup settings
- Restoring a Microsoft SQL server database
- Unsupported Microsoft SQL server features
Lesson 05: Protecting Microsoft SharePoint Server
- SharePoint Agent overview
- Adding a SharePoint server Farm
- Backing up SharePoint
- Restoring SharePoint
Lesson 06: Protecting Microsoft Active Directory
- Agent for Microsoft Active Directory
- Traditional Active Directory Restore
- Active Directory: Granular Recovery Technology
Lesson 07: Protecting Virtual Environments
- Virtualization technologies
- Backup Exec virtualization Agents
- Installing Agent for VMware and Hyper-V
- Backing up virtual machines
- Instant recovery for virtual machines
- Performing an Instant Recovery for virtual machines
- Removing an Instantly recovered virtual machine
- Instant Recovery Resiliency and Enhancements
- Virtual machine Recovery Ready validation: Overview
- Performing a virtual machine Recovery Ready validation
- Restoring virtual machines
Lesson 08: Performing Virtual Machine Conversions
- Conversion to virtual machine fundamentals
- One-time convert to virtual
- Backup and convert simultaneously
- Backup and convert to virtual machine on schedule
- Convert from a backup set
- Virtual conversion options
- Conversion considerations
Appendix A: Agent for Linux
- Agent for Linux