Courses Overview
The Avamar Management course equips participants with the knowledge and skills to administer, monitor, and troubleshoot EMC Avamar. Best practices are emphasized throughout, with a mix of lectures, review questions, and hands-on labs for practical learning.
Ideal for system administrators, systems engineers, partners, and support specialists who manage and support EMC Avamar environments.
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
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Explain the Avamar solution, its core components, and processes.
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Perform administrative tasks using the available Avamar interfaces.
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Run both scheduled and on-demand backups across different systems.
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Restore files through Avamar Administrator and Avamar Client interfaces.
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Configure and manage Avamar replication.
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Carry out daily server maintenance tasks.
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Use Avamar tools for system monitoring, capacity management, maintenance, and troubleshooting.
The content of this course is designed to support the course objectives.
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 Backup & Recovery Manager, and Replication
- Backup and Recovery 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
Participants should have a solid understanding of:
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Backup and recovery concepts and principles
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Network administration in a TCP/IP environment
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Unix/Linux system administration