Duration
5 days
Overview
This course provides participants with a solid foundation in Backup and Recovery infrastructure. The course focuses on the concepts and technologies used in Backup and Recovery environments. Participants will learn about backup and recovery theory, including backup methods, planning and key terminology. The course includes topics on how storage technologies work and how their features such as replication and snapshots can be used for backup. This is followed with a look into data sources at the backup client and storage node backup targets. The course finishes with backup and recovery planning and a high level look at the EMC Backup and Recovery product portfolio.
Audience
This course is intended for all technical roles.
Prerequisite Knowledge/Skills
To understand the content and successfully complete this course as student must have a suitable knowledgebase/skill set. The student must have an understanding of:
- Computer architecture
- Operating systems
- Networking, including TCP/IP, CIFS and NFS protocols
- Host virtualization concepts
There are no prerequisite courses.
Course Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, participants should be able to:
- Describe backup and recovery terminology
- Describe backup and recovery operations
- Describe various types of storage systems, concepts and components
- Identify major sources of backup data
- Describe the different types of backup storage media, their advantages and disadvantages
- Examine the steps involved in planning for backup and recovery
- Describe the EMC portfolio of backup products
Module 1: Backup Theory
- Backup and Recovery Overview
- Backup/Recovery Methods and Operations
Module 2: Information Storage Concepts
- Introduction to Storage Systems
- Protecting Disks in Arrays
- Intelligent Storage Systems
- Direct-Attached Storage
- SCSI Architecture
- Storage Area Networks
- Network-Attached Storage
- Protecting Data in External Storage
- Continuous Data Protection
Module 3: Backup Client
- Protecting Data in File Systems vs. Applications
- Databases (Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Exchange)
- Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service
- File Servers
- Virtualization
- Client and Remote Office Backups
- Backup Considerations and Challenges
Module 4: Backup Storage Node
- Storage Node Components
- Protocols
- Backup to Physical Tape
- Backup to Disk
- Backup to Virtual Tape
- Deduplication Systems
- Cloud Storage
Module 5: Backup and Recovery Planning
- Planning
- Management and Testing
- Disaster Recovery Considerations
- Concepts in Practice: EMC Backup Technologies
This course concludes with a course exercise to reinforce the concepts covered in lectures.
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