Veritas NetBackup 10.x: Maintenance and Troubleshooting (NBMT10) – Outline

Detailed Course Outline

Troubleshooting Methods and Tools
  • Troubleshooting Situations and Methodology
  • Gathering Symptoms and Information
  • Troubleshooting Procedures
  • Additional Troubleshooting Resources
Labs:
  • Exercise A: Introduction to the Lab Environment
  • Exercise B: Navigating the NetBackup Administration Console
  • Exercise C: Viewing NetBackup Configuration
  • Exercise D: Testing Backup and Restore Operations
  • Exercise E: Identifying Tools for Analyzing Backup and Restore Problems
Understanding the NetBackup Process Flow
  • Core Process Functions
  • Backup Process Flow
  • Tape Restore Process Flow
  • Disk Restore Process Flow
  • Viewing Process Flow Information
Labs:
  • Exercise A: Tracing the Backup Process Flow for Tape Based Storage
  • Exercise B: Tracing the Backup Process Flow for Disk Based Storage
  • Exercise C: Tracing the Restore Process Flow
  • Exercise D: Tracing the Process Flow for a Failed Job
Working with Debug Logs
  • Preparing to Gather Debug Logs
  • Enabling Debug Logs
  • Performing Log Management
  • Capturing Debug Logs
Labs:
  • Exercise A: Enabling Debug Logs
  • Exercise B: Setting the Logging Levels
  • Exercise C: Enabling Legacy Logging
  • Exercise D: Running Manual Backups
  • Exercise E: Collecting Logs and Copying them to the File Share
Analyzing NetBackup Logs
  • Preparing for Debug Log Analysis
  • Viewing Debug Logs
  • Analyzing Debug Logs for a Successful Backup Job
  • Analyzing Debug Logs for Failed Backup Jobs
Labs:
  • Exercise A: Creating Log Directories on the Primary, Media, and Client Servers
  • Exercise B: Setting the Logging Levels on the Primary, Media, and Client Servers
  • Exercise C: Running Manual Backups
  • Exercise D: Analyzing a Successful Backup Job
  • Exercise E: Analyzing a Failed Backup Job
Troubleshooting Communication Issues
  • Understanding NetBackup Communication
  • Configuring NetBackup and Network Communication
  • Troubleshooting Network and NetBackup Communication Problems
  • Common NetBackup Communication Issues
  • Understanding Security Certificates
  • Working with Certificate Revocation Lists
  • Configuring NetBackup Security Certificates
  • Troubleshooting NetBackup Security Certificates
  • Using External Security Certificates with NetBackup
Labs:
  • Exercise A: NetBackup Communications: Problem Scenario 1
  • Exercise B: NetBackup Communications: Problem Scenario 2
  • Exercise C: NetBackup Communications: Problem Scenario 3
  • Exercise D: Viewing NetBackup Certificates
  • Exercise E: Manually Deploying NetBackup Certificates
  • Exercise F: Revoking and Reissuing Host-ID Based Certificates
  • Exercise G: Using External Certificates with NetBackup
Troubleshooting NetBackup Installation and Upgrade Issues
  • NetBackup 10.x Installation Updates and Troubleshooting
  • Working with VxUpdate
Labs:
  • Exercise A: Troubleshooting Primary Server Installation Issues
  • Exercise B: Troubleshooting Primary Server Upgrade Issues
  • Exercise C: Working with VxUpdate
Troubleshooting the NetBackup Web User Interface
  • NetBackup Web User Interface: Synopsis
  • NetBackup Web User Interface and Role Based Access Control
  • Troubleshooting NetBackup Web User Interface Issues
Labs:
  • Exercise A: Accessing the NetBackup Web User Interface - Problem Scenario 1
  • Exercise B: Accessing the NetBackup Web User Interface - Problem Scenario 2
  • Exercise C: Editing a Custom Role
Troubleshooting Cloud Storage and OST Plug‐ins
  • Troubleshooting OpenStorage Technology (OST) Logging
  • Using Cloud with NetBackup
  • Troubleshooting NetBackup Snapshot Manager Issues
Troubleshooting NetBackup Deduplication Issues
  • NetBackup Deduplication Process Flow
  • Maintaining and Troubleshooting NetBackup Deduplication
  • Recovering from MSDP Server Failure
  • Multi-Domain and VLAN Support for MSDP
  • Certificate Configuration
Labs:
  • Exercise A: Monitoring and Troubleshooting MSDP
  • Exercise B: Verifying the MSDP Backup Image
  • Exercise C: Discovering and Fixing Orphan MSDP Data
Troubleshooting Virtual Environment Issues
  • Troubleshooting VMware Backups
  • Troubleshooting Hyper-V Backups
  • Troubleshooting RHV Backups
Labs:
  • Pre-configuration Lab Task
  • Exercise A: Troubleshooting VMware Backups
  • Exercise B: Troubleshooting VMware Restores
Troubleshooting Storage Lifecycle Policies
  • Storage Lifecycle Policies: Overview
  • Troubleshooting Storage Lifecycle Policies
  • Troubleshooting Data Classification
  • Understanding Auto Image Replication
  • Troubleshooting Auto Image Replication
Labs:
  • Exercise A: Storage Lifecycle Policies - Problem Scenario 1
  • Exercise B: Storage Lifecycle Policies - Problem Scenario 2
Understanding the NetBackup Catalog
  • NetBackup Catalog: Overview
  • NetBackup Relational Databases (NBDB)
  • Catalog Backup and Recovery
  • Maintaining the NetBackup Relational Database
Labs:
  • Exercise A: Reviewing the NetBackup Catalog Structure
  • Exercise B: Configuring and Running NetBackup Catalog Backups
  • Exercise C: Recovering the Catalogs Using the NetBackup Web UI
  • Exercise D: Using the cat_convert Command
  • Exercise E: Corrupting the NBDB
  • Exercise F: Recovering the NBDB from Staging
  • Exercise G: Configuring a Policy for Catalog Archive
  • Exercise H: Recovering the Catalogs Using the bprecover Command
Appendix A - Troubleshooting Tape Devices and Media
  • NetBackup Device Troubleshooting
  • Common NetBackup Device Issues
  • Media and Device Selection
  • Media-related Status Codes
  • Troubleshooting Frozen and Suspended Media
Labs:
  • Exercise A: Tape Devices and Media - Problem Scenario 1
  • Exercise B: Tape Devices and Media - Problem Scenario 2
Appendix B - Troubleshooting Disk Backup Resources
  • Disk-based Backups: Overview
  • Maintaining and Troubleshooting BasicDisk
  • Maintaining and Troubleshooting AdvancedDisk
Labs:
  • Exercise A: Disk Devices - Problem Scenario 1
  • Exercise B: Disk Devices - Problem Scenario 2
Appendix C - Troubleshooting Containerized Applications
  • Container Technology: Overview
  • Troubleshooting Kubernetes issues