Course Details
This course explores EMC NetWorker installation, configuration, maintenance, management, backup, and recovery. The course contains lectures, instructor demonstrations, and hands-on labs to provide practice in both UNIX and Windows environments.
Course Prerequisites
Understanding of:
- Backup and recovery concepts and principles
- Network administration in a TCP/IP environment
- SCSI device configuration, cabling, and addressing
- Windows or Linux system administration
Course Agenda
1. NetWorker Overview
- NetWorker Hosts, Processes and Backup Flow
- NetWorker Features and Functions
- NetWorker Backup Terminology
2. NetWorker Planning and Installation
- Installing NetWorker and NMC
- Stopping and Starting NetWorker Processes
- Connecting to the Console Server
3. NetWorker Resources and Administrative Interfaces
- NetWorker Resources
- NetWorker Administrative Interfaces
4. Performing Backups
- Before Performing a Backup
- NetWorker Administrative Interfaces
- Configuring Resources for Backup
- Client Backup Command Attributes
- Performing Manual Client-initiated Backups
- NetWorker Directives
- Backing Up Virtual Clients and Applications
5. NetWorker Media Management
- NetWorker Pools Overview
- Configuring a Pool Resource
6. Configuring and Managing Devices
- Devices Overview
- Using Disk Type Devices
- Library Overview
- Configuring and Managing a Library in the GUI
- Configuring and Managing a Library Using Commands
- Reconfiguring a Library
7. NetWorker Database Management
- Querying the Client File Index and Media Database
- Save Set / Volume Status and Lifecycle
- Manual Management of the NetWorker Databases
8. Performing NetWorker Recoveries
- NetWorker Recovery Overview
- Performing Browsable Recoveries
- Performing Save Set Recoveries
- Performing Directed Recoveries
- Performing Filesystem Snapshot Recoveries
9. Performing Cloning and Staging
- Performing Cloning
- Performing NetWorker Staging
10. NetWorker Security
- NetWorker Security Features
- Managing NetWorker Hosts and Users
- NetWorker User Groups
- Audit Logging and the Jobs Database
- NetWorker Notifications
11. Administering NetWorker
- Networker Management Console Administration
- NetWorker Management Console Reporting
- Protecting the Console Database
- NetWorker Parallelism
- NetWorker Licensing
- Software Distribution
- Configuring NetWorker in a Firewall Environment
- Multi-Tenancy
12. VSS Backups and Cluster Environments
- VSS Backup and Recovery
- Backup and Recovery of Clusters
13. Recovering a NetWorker Server
- NetWorker Server Recovery Prerequisites
- Recovering the NetWorker Server
- Recovering NetWorker Control Data