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System Administration: Backup and Recovery

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Learn how to back up the two most popular operating systems—Windows and Linux—using free utilities as well as third-party and cloud-based solutions.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Take charge of your network backup and recovery
1. Backup Types and Solutions
  • Overview of backup solutions
  • The full backup
  • Incremental backups
  • Differential backups
  • Copy backups
  • Daily backups
2. Storage for Backup
  • Using internal storage for backup
  • SAN storage for backup
  • DVD storage for backup
  • Network share backup option
  • Cloud storage backup options
  • NAS backup options
  • Storage Replica feature
  • Backup security
3. Windows Backup
  • Install and overview of Windows Server Backup
  • Use Windows 11 Client backups
  • Schedule Windows backups
  • Volume Shadow Service for backups
  • Restore files from a Windows backup
  • Bare metal restoration using Windows backup
  • System state backups
  • Restore authoritative Windows Active Directory database
4. Linux Backup
  • Duplicity
  • Borg
  • Rsync
5. Commercial Backup Products
  • Veeam Backup
  • Backup Exec
  • Arcserve
  • Commvault
  • Backup deduplication with Backup Exec
  • Connect Cloud Storage to Veeam backup
  • Complete restoration of a third-party backup program on a Windows server
  • Convert backup to a virtual machine with Backup Exec
  • Third-party backup of a Linux server with Backup Exec
6. Cloud Backup
  • Backup using Azure
  • Backup using Amazon Web Services
  • Microsoft Azure Backup Server

Taught by

Robert McMillen

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