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Unformatted text preview: CONFIDENTIAL - NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION Veritas NetBackup 7.7: Administration – Lab Book 200-002953-B Veritas NetBackup 7.7: Administration THIS PUBLICATION IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND ALL EXPRESS OR IMPLIED CONDITIONS, REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES, INCLUDING ANY IMPLIED WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR NON-INFRINGEMENT, ARE DISCLAIMED, EXCEPT TO THE EXTENT THAT SUCH DISCLAIMERS ARE HELD TO BE LEGALLY INVALID. VERITAS TECHNOLOGIES LLC SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES IN CONNECTION WITH THE FURNISHING, PERFORMANCE, OR USE OF THIS PUBLICATION. THE INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE. No part of the contents of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without the written permission of the publisher. Copyright @ 2015 Veritas Technologies LLC. All rights reserved. Course Developer Technical Contributors and Reviewers Chris Amidei Joseph Gallagher John Gerhardson Tomer Gurantz Ray Katos Carly Storrie Stephen Williams Ananya Bhattacharya Jose Ignacio Colodras Michael Dominguez Esan Duncan Chris Ebner Cheryl Faulkner Bill Felt Freddie Gilyard Graeme Gofton Mark Harvey Charles Hockenbarger Swati Joshi Abhijeet Kakade Vikram Kamat Jim Li Robert Lindenbusch Ashima Mathur Joseph Martin Steve Moran Micke Ostrom Robert Owen Mukund Paranjape Paul Ransted Kurt Rebel Sue Rich Sylvain Savary Jason Weiss Debbie Wilmot For specific country offices Veritas World Headquarters and contact numbers, please 500 East Middlefield Road visit our website at Mountain View, CA 94043 USA . +1 (650) 933 1000 or its affiliates in the U.S. and other countries. Other names may be © 2015 Veritas Technologies LLC. All rights reserved. Veritas and the Veritas Logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Veritas Technologies LLC trademarks of their respective owners. ii CONFIDENTIAL - NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION Table of Contents Lab 1: Introduction to NetBackup Exercise 1: Lab environment introduction ...................................................................................1-2 Exercise 2: Launching the NetBackup Administration Console ..................................................1-6 Exercise 3: Navigating in the NetBackup Administration Console...............................................1-8 Exercise 4: Verifying NetBackup licenses using the NetBackup Administration Console..........1-13 Exercise 5: Identifying common Administration Console configuration items .........................1-16 Exercise 6: Initiating backup jobs using the NetBackup Administration Console......................1-30 Exercise 6: Viewing and monitoring backup jobs using the Activity Monitor ...........................1-32 Lab 2: Configuring NetBackup Storage Exercise 1: Viewing disk storage on a NetBackup server system ................................................2-2 Exercise 2: Configuring a Basic Disk storage unit ........................................................................2-5 Exercise 3: Configuring a storage unit group .............................................................................2-10 Lab 3: Configuring Policies and Schedules Exercise 1: Configuring a NetBackup policy .................................................................................3-2 Exercise 2: Configuring a policy to use calendar-based schedules ............................................3-13 Exercise 3: Copying a policy to create a new policy ..................................................................3-18 Exercise 4: (Optional) Lab challenge .........................................................................................3-20 Copyright @ 2015 Veritas Technologies LLC. 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Lab 4: Performing File System Backups Exercise 1: Using the Activity Monitor ........................................................................................4-2 Exercise 2: Performing a manual backup ..................................................................................4-12 Exercise 3: Viewing job details in the Activity Monitor ............................................................4-14 Exercise 4: Deactivating and activating policies .......................................................................4-23 Exercise 5: Performing user-initiated backups .........................................................................4-25 Lab 5: Performing File System Restores Exercise 1: Becoming familiar with key restore settings in the BAR GUI ....................................5-2 Exercise 2: Restoring client files to their original location ..........................................................5-9 Exercise 3: Restoring client files to an alternate file system location .......................................5-18 Exercise 4: Restoring client files to an alternate client system – Windows (only) ...................5-24 Exercise 5: Restoring client files to an alternate client system – Linux (only) ..........................5-33 Exercise 6: (Optional) Using the OpsCenter Operational Restore feature ...............................5-43 Table of Contents iii © 2015 Veritas Technologies LLC. All Rights Reserved CONFIDENTIAL - NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION Lab 6: Configuring Disk Pools Exercise 1: Identifying AdvancedDisk storage ............................................................................6-2 Exercise 2: Configuring AdvancedDisk .........................................................................................6-4 Exercise 3: Verifying AdvancedDisk configuration.....................................................................6-13 Exercise 4: Configuring a policy to write backups to AdvancedDisk storage ............................6-22 Exercise 5: Performing and monitoring backups to AdvancedDisk storage .............................6-25 Exercise 6: Monitoring and managing AdvancedDisk disk pools ..............................................6-27 Lab 7: Configuring Media Server Deduplication Exercise 1: Configuring NetBackup Media Server Deduplication (MSDP) ..................................7-2 Exercise 2: Configuring a policy to use MSDP storage ...............................................................7-16 Exercise 3: Performing backups to MSDP storage ....................................................................7-20 Exercise 4: Configuring and using client-side deduplication .....................................................7-26 Exercise 5: Monitoring and managing NetBackup MSDP storage ............................................7-35 Exercise 6: (Optional) Running Deduplication reports in OpsCenter ........................................7-42 Lab 8: Configuring Tape Storage Exercise 1: Verifying tape devices are visible to the operating systems of media servers..........8-2 Exercise 2: Viewing configured tape devices (using the NetBackup Admin Console) ..............8-24 Exercise 3: Configuring tape devices using the Device Configuration wizard ...........................8-29 Exercise 4: Configuring volume pools .......................................................................................8-39 Exercise 5: Configuring media using the Administration Console ............................................8-42 Copyright @ 2015 Veritas Technologies LLC. 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Lab 9: Managing and Optimizing Tape Storage Exercise 1: Examining tape drive and robot configuration settings ...........................................9-2 Exercise 2: Using the Device Monitor to monitor and manage tape drives .............................9-10 Exercise 3: Using the robtest utility ...........................................................................................9-26 Exercise 4: Managing media .....................................................................................................9-41 Exercise 5: Running tape-based reports ...................................................................................9-61 Lab 10: Protecting Virtual Machines Exercise 1: Verifying the VMware environment .......................................................................10-2 Exercise 2: Configuring NetBackup to perform VMware backups ............................................10-8 Exercise 3: Configuring a VMware policy ................................................................................10-13 Exercise 4: Performing and monitoring VMware virtual machine backups ............................10-27 iv Veritas NetBackup 7.7: Administration © 2015 Veritas Technologies LLC. All Rights Reserved CONFIDENTIAL - NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION Lab 11: Recovering Virtual Machines Exercise 1: Recovering virtual machine files - Windows ...........................................................11-2 Exercise 2: Recovering virtual machine files - Linux ...............................................................11-17 Exercise 3: Recovering an entire VMware virtual machine ....................................................11-31 Exercise 4: Configuring the NetBackup plug-in for the VMware vSphere Web Client ...........11-41 Exercise 5: Performing Instant Recovery (IRV) using the vSphere Web Client ........................11-47 Lab 12: Duplicating Backups Exercise 1: Configuring a Storage Lifecycle Policy ....................................................................12-2 Exercise 2: Configuring a policy to use an SLP ..........................................................................12-8 Exercise 3: Modifying SLP Host Properties .............................................................................12-10 Exercise 4: Viewing and monitoring SLP operations ...............................................................12-13 Lab 13: Managing and Protecting the NetBackup Catalog Exercise 1: Running NetBackup reports ....................................................................................13-2 Exercise 2: Verifying, expiring, and importing backup images ...............................................13-15 Exercise 3: Configuring and running NetBackup catalog backups ..........................................13-39 Exercise 4: Recovering the catalogs using the NetBackup Catalog Recovery wizard ..............13-47 Copyright @ 2015 Veritas Technologies LLC. 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Lab 14: Optimizing File System Backups Exercise 1: Optimizing backups using the NetBackup Accelerator ...........................................14-2 Exercise 2: Configuring and using multiple data streams .......................................................14-12 Exercise 3: (Optional) Configuring and performing multiplexed backups ..............................14-29 Exercise 4: (Optional) Configuring for and using True Image Restore.....................................14-43 Exercise 5: (Optional) Optimizing backups using synthetic backups .....................................14-83 Lab 15: Collecting Logs and Diagnostic Information Exercise 1: Viewing, stopping, and starting NetBackup services ..............................................15-2 Exercise 2: Running NetBackup reports for troubleshooting ...................................................15-8 Exercise 3: Using the NetBackup Logging Assistant ................................................................15-14 Appendix A: (Optional) Collecting Logs and Diagnostic Information Exercise 1: Viewing and setting debug log properties ............................................................... A-2 Exercise 2: Enabling NetBackup legacy debug logging .............................................................. A-6 Exercise 3: Logging levels for unified logs ................................................................................ A-15 Exercise 4: Using the nbsu and nbcplogs commands .............................................................. A-32 Table of Contents v © 2015 Veritas Technologies LLC. All Rights Reserved CONFIDENTIAL - NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION Lab 1: Introduction to NetBackup Copyright @ 2015 Veritas Technologies LLC. All rights reserved. In this lab, you perform tasks to become familiar with the NetBackup 7.7 Administration console used within this lab environment. The slide lists the tasks to be performed. Continue to Exercise 1. Lab 1-1 CONFIDENTIAL - NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION Exercise 1: Lab environment introduction The Windows-based lab environment If you use a Linux-based lab environment to perform the labs, go to the next page. Copyright @ 2015 Veritas Technologies LLC. All rights reserved. Figure 1 illustrates systems in the Windows-based lab environment for this course. Figure 1: Windows-based lab environment for the 7.7 Administration course NetBackup 7.7 software has been pre-installed on lab systems as follows: • • • winmaster – NetBackup 7.7 server and client software winmedia - NetBackup 7.7 server and client software console - NetBackup 7.7 Administration Console, NetBackup 7.7 client software, and OpsCenter 7.7 server and agent software No NetBackup software is installed on the vtl or on the VMware systems, vcenter1, esx1, winvm1, and lnxvm2. Continue to page 4. Lab 1-2 CONFIDENTIAL - NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION The Linux-based lab environment If you use a Windows-based lab environment to perform the labs, go to the next page. Figure 2 illustrates systems in the Linux-based lab environment for this course. Figure 2: Linux-based lab environment for the 7.7 Administration course Copyright @ 2015 Veritas Technologies LLC. All rights reserved. NetBackup 7.7 software has been pre-installed on lab systems as follows: • • • lnxmaster – NetBackup 7.7 server and client software lnxmedia - NetBackup 7.7 server and client software console - NetBackup 7.7 Administration Console, NetBackup 7.7 client software, and OpsCenter 7.7 server and agent software No NetBackup software is installed on the vtl or on the VMware systems, vcenter1, esx1, winvm1, and lnxvm2. Continue to the next page. Lab 1-3 CONFIDENTIAL - NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION Power on the virtual machines in your lab environment (local VMware Workstation lab environments only) If you are attending this course in the Virtual Academy, proceed to Exercise 2. If you are performing the lab steps in a local lab environment, using VMware Workstation, you may need to power on the virtual machines before you can perform the lab steps. If the virtual machines are already powered on, proceed to Exercise 2. The virtual machines must be started in the sequence indicated in Table 1. Startup order 1 2 3 4 Copyright @ 2015 Veritas Technologies LLC. All rights reserved. 5 6 n/a n/a Virtual Machine Name Description console.example.com Domain controller, DNS, NetBackup console system Virtual tape library with tape drives NetBackup 7.7 master/EMM/media server vtl.example.com winmaster.example.com or lnxmaster.example.com winmedia.example.com or lnxmedia.example.com vcenter1.example.com esx1.example.com NetBackup 7.7 media server VMware vCenter server VMware ESX server winvm1.example.com VMware virtual machine on esx1 (Do not power on.) lnxvm2.example.com VMware virtual machine on esx1 (Do not power on.) Table 1: Virtual machine startup sequence Perform the following steps if your lab VMs are not powered on: 1. Access the VMware Workstation console. 2. Locate and select the tab for the first VM listed in the “startup order” column of Table 1. Lab 1-4 CONFIDENTIAL - NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION 3. Start/Power on the VM. Ensure that the virtual machine is completely powered on before starting the next machine. Verify that a logon prompt is displayed on the console of the VM. 4. In VMware Workstation, access the tab for the next VM listed in the “startup order” column of Table 1. 5. Start/Power on the VM, and verify that the logon prompt is displayed before proceeding to the next step. 6. Repeat steps 4 and 5 until all VMs are powered on – in the order listed in Table 1 and the logon prompt is displayed on the console of each VM. 7. Verify that all virtual machines are powered on before continuing. It is not necessary to log on to any of the VM’s at this time. Some of the VM’s, such as the vtl, should never need to be logged into; they will just provide services in the background. Copyright @ 2015 Veritas Technologies LLC. All rights reserved. 8. Proceed to Exercise 2. Lab 1-5 CONFIDENTIAL - NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION Exercise 2: Launching the NetBackup Administration Console In this exercise, you perform the steps to launch the NetBackup 7.7 Administration Console and login to your master server system. 1. Access the desktop of the console.example.com system. console.example.com 2. Log on to the console system as Administrator (password = train). 3. Locate and double-click the NBU 7.7 Admin Console icon, located on the desktop of the console system. Copyright @ 2015 Veritas Technologies LLC. All rights reserved. Figure 3 illustrates the Administration Console login screen. Figure 3: NetBackup Administration Console login screen 4. Enter the Host name, User name, and Password of your master server system, and click Login. Use the values provided in Table 2. (You can use the drop-down arrows to select the Host name and User name.) Lab environment Master server name User Name Password Windows-based winmaster.example.com Administrator train Linux-based lnxmaster.example.com root train Table 2: Administration Console - Master server login information Lab 1-6 CONFIDENTIAL - NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION After successfully logging in, the NetBackup Administration Console is displayed. The NetBackup Administration Console window title bar contains the host name of the NetBackup master server that you have logged in to, and the NetBackup software version running on that system. The name of the NetBackup server you are connected to is indicated at the top of the left pane of the Administration Console. See Figure 4 below for an example. Figure 4: Name of “Connected to” NetBackup server 5. Verify that the NetBackup Administration Console is connected to your master server before continuing. Copyright @ 2015 Veritas Technologies LLC. All rights reserved. 6. Continue to Exercise 3. Lab 1-7 CONFIDENTIAL - NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION Exercise 3: Navigating in the NetBackup Administration Console In this exercise you: • • • • Identify the general NetBackup Administration Console layout for a master server. Connect to other NetBackup servers with the Administration Console. Identify the general NetBackup Administration Console layout for a media server. Verify NetBackup licenses in the NetBackup Administration Console. Identifying NetBackup Administration Console tasks 1. Collapse all entries in the left pane of the Administration Console – so that the minimum number of entries is displayed. 2. Take note of the entries listed in the “tree” in the left pane. 3. Fill in the missing NetBackup tree entries in the Table 3 below. Copyright @ 2015 Veritas Technologies LLC. All rights reserved. Check your answers xxxmaster.example.com (Master Server) Backup, Archive, and Restore Activity Monitor Media and Device Management Access Management Vault Management Bare Metal Restore Management Table 3: Administration Console "tree" entries – for a master server 4. Click the symbol to the left of the NetBackup Management entry in the left pane of the Administration Console to expand the NetBackup Management entry. Lab 1-8 CONFIDENTIAL - NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION 5. Take note of the entries listed below the NetBackup Management entry. These functions and categories are listed in Table 4. Reports Policies Storage Catalog Host Properties Applications Table 4: NetBackup Management functions and categories 6. Click the name of the master server, located at the top of the left pane of the Administration Console. (This is the entry immediately above the Backup, Archive, and Restore entry.) Copyright @ 2015 Veritas Technologies LLC. All rights reserved. 7. Take note of the names of the NetBackup wizards that are displayed in the right pane of the Administration Console. The master server wi...
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