Veritas NetBackup 8.2: Maintenance and Troubleshooting (NBMT) – Outline

Detailed Course Outline

Troubleshooting Methods and Tools

  • Troubleshooting situations and methodology
  • Gathering symptoms and information
  • Additional troubleshooting resources

NetBackup Process Flow

  • Core process functions overview
  • Backup process flow
  • Tape restore process flow
  • Disk restore process flow
  • Viewing process flow information

Troubleshooting Communication Issues

  • Understanding NetBackup communication
  • Configuring NetBackup and network communication
  • Troubleshooting network and NetBackup communication problems
  • Common NetBackup communication issues

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

Troubleshooting Disk Backups Resources

  • Overview of disk-based backups
  • Maintaining and Troubleshooting Basic Disk
  • Maintaining and Troubleshooting Advanced Disk
  • Maintaining and Troubleshooting OpenStorage

Troubleshooting NetBackup Deduplication

  • Understanding NetBackup deduplication and deduplication process flow
  • Maintaining and troubleshooting NetBackup deduplication
  • Protecting from MSDP server failure

Additional Backup and Restore Troubleshooting

  • Troubleshooting file system backups
  • Troubleshooting snapshot-based backups
  • Troubleshooting VMware backups
  • Troubleshooting Hyper-V backups
  • Troubleshooting restores

Troubleshooting Storage Lifecycle Policies

  • Understanding Storage Lifecycle Policies
  • Troubleshooting Storage Lifecycle Policies
  • Troubleshooting data classification
  • Understanding Auto Image Replication
  • Troubleshooting Auto Image Replication

Debug Logging

  • Preparing to gather debug logs
  • Enabling debug logs
  • Performing log management
  • Capturing debug logs

Introduction to Log Analysis

  • Preparing for debug log analysis
  • Viewing debug logs
  • Analyzing debug logs for a successful backup job
  • Analyzing debug logs for a failed backup job

Understanding the NetBackup Catalog

  • The NetBackup catalog
  • The NetBackup relational databases (NBDB)
  • Catalog backup and recovery
  • Maintaining the NBDB