About Veritas NetBackup Course

Veritas NetBackup is an enterprise-level heterogeneous backup and recovery suite. It provides cross-platform backup functionality to a large variety of Windows, UNIX and Linux operating systems.

NetBackup features a central master server which manages both media servers and clients. Core server platforms include Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, Tru64, Linux and Windows.

NetBackup OpsCenter, which comes bundled with the NetBackup 7.0 distribution and replaces the NetBackup Operations Manager component used in previous versions, can manage multiple NetBackup environments. NetBackup comes with support for many hardware devices like tape drives, tape libraries, disk units. It supports, among many other features, hot backups for major database products like Oracle; it can natively backup and restore the virtual machines of major virtualization products like VMware Infrastructure, can use Network Data Management Protocol,and has tape vaulting. NetBackup also enables LAN-free and server-free backups in SAN fabric environments.

Product have been adapting features during previous releases, in version 8.1 support for BMR, Bare Metal Restore is not available, client-software needs to stay on version 8.0. It will be available again in 8.2. NetBackup have started to become first class citizen for handling virtual host environments.

• NetBackup CloudCatalyst-Faster, storage-efficient backups to the cloud with deduplication
• NetBackup Parallel Streaming – Faster, scale-out backups for Big Data and Hyperconverged cluster
• NetBackup for Hadoop/HDFS – Parallel, scale-out backups of Hadoop/HDFS clusters
• NetBackup for Nutanix – Parallel, scale-out backups of Nutanix clusters
• NetBackup for MySQL – Database-aware backup of MySQL databases
• Granular VMware backup and recovery – Select virtual drives with a new recovery UI
• Instant Recovery for Oracle – Access Oracle databases directly from NetBackup Appliance storage
• NetBackup Accelerator for Dell EMC Isilon – Up to 50% faster NDMP backups for Isilon filers
• Easier Deployment – Deployment templates and native packaging for all clients
• Hardened Security – Secure communications and improved encryption options for MSDP storage
• NetBackup Virtual Appliance – Deploy into existing virtual environments, including data centers and remote offices