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Managing NetBackup
David Chapa

Topic: Backups/Disaster Planning and Recovery
Audience: Beginners/Intermediate

Description:
After consulting services has gone home and the knowledge transfer has emptied into the bit bucket, this talk will help the admin regain control of their environment. This talk will help the attendee understand the various databases and their functions / associations. Make sense out of the runbook left behind, best practices, etc.

Prerequisites:
Unix with some shell scripting.

Last change: Sep 16, 2006 04:35:04 PM

The Speaker: David Chapa

Contact Organization: DataStaff, Inc.
Location: Illinois
Phone: 847 413 1144
Email: david@xbpadm-commands.com
Website: http://www.consulting.datastaff.com/
Will travel: Country
Payment required: All offers

Bio:
David Chapa is the Consulting Manager for DataStaff, Inc. responsible for managing the vision and direction of DataStaff's consulting practices. Prior to joining DataStaff, Mr. Chapa held several senior level technical positions with various software manufacturers in the Backup/Recovery market space. His experience spans 18 years in the computer industry with such companies as Cheyenne Software, Unisys, OpenVision and NSI Software with the last 9 years having been focused solely on Backup/Recovery and Data Availability. During his career he has had the opportunity to work with a variety of Operating Systems including Netware, NT and Unix. When he has a choice, Mr. Chapa will spend most of his time in Unix. Mr. Chapa is a Certified Veritas NetBackup Instructor for both NetBackup Fundamentals Class and the Advanced NetBackup class and continues to teach for Veritas Software. He developed the original NetBackup training course material while at OpenVision. He chooses to remain a billable consultant as he enjoys the client contact and continues to find the work challenging and stimulating. He has been working with NetBackup since version 1.6 and has installed, configured and tuned NetBackup for many companies, large and small, across the country and Canada.

Last change: Sep 7, 2006 02:43:05 PM