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EMC Avamar Administration

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Who Needs to Attend

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

 

Follow-On Courses

There are no follow-ons for this course.

 

The EMC Avamar Administration course provides you with the knowledge and basic skills necessary to administer, monitor, and troubleshoot EMC Avamar. The course contains lectures, review questions, and hands-on labs. Recommended Avamar best practices are presented throughout the course.

Certification:

Assessments validate that you have learned the knowledge or skills presented. This course includes review questions at the end of each module.

What You'll Learn

 

  • Describe the Avamar advantage over traditional backup systems
  • Define Avamar terminology
  • Describe the major cycles in the snapup process
  • Describe Avamar system architecture, components and processes
  • Install Avamar Administrator and Client software
  • Create a group policy
  • Run on-demand snapups from the Avamar Administrator and the Avamar Client
    interfaces
  • Restore files using Avamar Administrator and Avamar Web Restore interfaces
  • Describe Avamar daily maintenance activities: checkpoints, HFS checks, and
    garbage collection
  • Use Avamar tools to perform system monitoring, maintenance and troubleshooting

Course Outline

 

1. Avamar Fundamentals

2. Avamar Administration

3. Avamar Backups

4. Performing Recoveries

5. Using Enterprise Manager and Replication

6. System Monitoring and Maintenance

7. Logs, Troubleshooting, and Reporting

Labs

 

Lab 2-1: Install and Launch Avamar Administrator

Lab 2-2: Perform Avamar Account Management Tasks

Lab 2-3: Installing Avamar Client Software

Lab 3-1: Create Avamar Groups

Lab 3-2: On-demand Snapups

Lab 3-3: Managing Backups

Lab 4-1: Running Restores

Lab 5-1: Using Avamar Enterprise Manager

Lab 5-2: Avamar Replication

Lab 6-1: Performing Daily System Monitoring Tasks

Lab 6-2: Using dpnctl

Lab 6-3: Daily Maintenance Activities

Lab 7-1: Exploring Avamar Processes and Logs

Lab 7-2: Running Standard and Custom Reports

Classroom Dates and Locations

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Oct 11 - 13, 2010Boston, MARegister
Nov 8 - 10, 2010Dulles, VARegister

 

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Course Code: 1781

Resources

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