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AVAM - Avamar Management

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3 days
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Duration

3 days

Overview

Learn the knowledge and basic skills necessary to administer, monitor, and troubleshoot EMC Avamar.

This course combines lecture, review questions and hands-on labs to provide you with the knowledge and skills necessary to administer, monitor, and troubleshoot EMC Avamar, including recommended best practices.

Objectives

  • Avamar advantage over traditional backup systems
  • Avamar terminology
  • Avamar system components and processes
  • Avamar de-duplication backup process
  • Install Avamar Administrator and Client software
  • Create a group policy
  • Run on-demand backups from the Avamar Administrator and the Avamar Client interfaces
  • Restore files using Avamar Administrator and Avamar client interfaces
  • Types of Avamar replication and configure Avamar standard replication
  • Configure and use Avamar Activation Manager and Desktop/Laptop interfaces
  • Avamar server daily maintenance activities: checkpoints, HFS checks, and garbage collection
  • Use Avamar tools to perform system monitoring, maintenance, capacity management, and troubleshooting

Audience

System administrators, systems engineers, partners and support specialists who administer and support EMC Avamar

Prerequisites

  • An understanding of backup and recovery concepts and principles, network administration in a TCP/IP environment, and UNIX/Linux system administration
  • EMC Avamar Overview - Self Study

Course Outlines

Avamar Fundamentals

  • Avamar Features and Functions
  • Avamar System Components
  • Avamar Processes and Backup Process Flow
  • Backing Up Virtual Machines, NDMP, Cluster, and Database Application Environments

Avamar Administration

  • Installing and Using Avamar Administrator Console
  • Installing Avamar Backup Client Software
  • Account Management
  • Using Client Manager

Avamar Backups

  • Scheduled Backups
  • On-Demand Backups
  • Configuring Avamar Desktop/Laptop
  • Managing and Monitoring Backup Activity

Performing Restores

  • Restoring Client Data
  • Client Server Recovery with Avamar

Using Enterprise Manager and Replication

  • Avamar Enterprise Manager
  • Avamar Replication

System Monitoring and Maintenance

  • Avamar Server Environment
  • Daily System Monitoring Tasks
  • Daily Avamar Server Maintenance Activities
  • Managing Avamar Server Capacity

Logs, Troubleshooting, and Reporting

  • Avamar Processes and Logs
  • Troubleshooting
  • Avamar Reporting

Labs

In addition to lecture and demonstrations, this course includes hands-on labs to provide you with practical experience.

This is a version-specific reference outline. Confirm the current syllabus and delivery arrangements with EIEIO.