What you'll learn:
- Understand the core principles of backup, replication, and disaster recovery, and how they apply across modern IT environments.
- Master Nakivo Backup & Replication architecture, including its components, deployment options, and supported platforms like VMware, Hyper-V, Nutanix.
- Perform hands-on configuration of backup jobs, replication, and recovery tasks using step-by-step lab exercises in real-world scenarios.
- Optimize and secure your backup environment with automation, monitoring tools, cloud integration, retention policies, and performance tuning best practices.
Do you want to become a Nakivo expert and master enterprise-level data protection, backup, recovery, and replication strategies?
This comprehensive course walks you through every feature of Nakivo Backup & Replication, from infrastructure setup to advanced configuration and disaster recovery planning. Whether you're a systems administrator, virtualization engineer, or IT professional, this course will make you confident in deploying, managing, and troubleshooting Nakivo across multiple platforms (VMware, Hyper-V, Proxmox, Nutanix, Physical, Cloud, Microsoft 365, and more).
Through hands-on walkthroughs, real-world scenarios, and quizzes, you'll gain the practical skills needed to configure backup jobs, perform instant recoveries, implement replication, monitor environments, and secure your data end-to-end.
What You'll Learn:
Install and configure Nakivo Backup & Replication
Perform VM, file-level, and application-aware backups
Configure replication and failover for disaster recovery
Manage backup repositories and storage types (CIFS, S3, Cloud)
Set up advanced backup strategies: full, incremental, synthetic, and mirror
Implement job scheduling, retention, and immutability
Use Nakivo for Microsoft 365, Oracle DB, Amazon EC2, and more
Monitor job performance and generate actionable reports
Create and test Site Recovery Plans
Automate backups and ensure compliance with best practices
Course Content Overview:
Section 1: Introduction
● Course Overview and Objectives
Section 2: Infrastructure Availability & Backup Concepts
High Availability, Disaster Recovery Design, Backup Types, Strategies, and Retention
Section 3: Backup Strategies & Disaster Recovery Planning
Frequency, Automation, Testing, Security, and Policy Documentation
Section 4: The Restoration Process
File, VM, and System Recovery, Point-in-Time Restores, and Documentation
Section 5: Nakivo Overview & Architecture
Supported Platforms, Deployment Options, Backup & Replication Features
Section 6: Working with the Nakivo Web Console
Account Setup, Inventory Configuration (VMs, Cloud, FileShare, Physical)
Section 7: Adding Inventory
Adding and Managing All Supported Workloads in Nakivo
Section 8: Nakivo Nodes
Transporter Deployment for VMware, Nutanix, Proxmox, and Tape
Section 9: Backup Repository
Local, Network, Cloud, S3, and Federated Repository Configuration
Section 10: System Settings & Access Management
Email Alerts, Self-Backup, Database, Throttling, and Permissions
Section 11: Backup Job Configuration
Scheduling, Retention, Immutability, App-Aware Mode, Indexing, Verification
Section 12: Backup Copy Jobs
Creating, Scheduling, and Managing Backup Copy Jobs with Retention Policies
Section 13: Replication Jobs
Creating Replication Jobs, Failover/Failback, Re-IP, Real-Time Sync
Section 14: Recovery Operations
Full VM, Flash Boot, File, Object, and Site Recovery Techniques
Section 15: Reporting and Monitoring
Job Reports, Alerts, Metrics, Activity Calendar, and Repository Health
