What you'll learn:
- Make the student ready to fully plan, install, configure and operate a Bacula backup system
- Understand the most used backup strategies
- Be able to configure the backup for several specific applications (databases, virtual machines etc.)
The course presents the theory and practice of backups, covering installation, recovery, backup specific tools, disaster recovery and many other important aspects of safe and reliable backups. Real situations recording and retrieval data will be simulated.
The course is very practical: 10% theory / 90% hands-on, and all the commands are availale on the training documentation.
Some topics:
* Backup Theory
* Backup Policies
*Types, myths, topologies and backup strategies (GFS).
* Bacula Key Features and Architeture
* Bacula Server Installation and Configuration on Linux
* Installing and Configuring the Bacula Client (Linux and Windows)
* Data Compression
* Configuration and Operation of: disk storages, magnetic tape drives and autochangers
* Bacula Commands
* Full and partial data restore
* Graphical Interfaces
* Bacula Server disasters recovery
* Run and After Backup scripts
* Specific applications backup: virtual machines, databases, mail servers etc.
* VolumesCopy and Migration
* Files Deduplication
* Exercises
Everyone who works with backup or need corporate data protection should do this training in order to know more about the inner workings of this wonderful open source backup tool. It's also great for IT university students and teachers, since it allows it's code studying and modification.
