Looking for a challenging position where my knowledge and skills can be shared and enriched leading to contribution to the enterprise and personal growth.

• Overall 6 Years of experience in below Backup, and OS technologies -
• 1. Symantec Netbackup 6.x and 7.x
• 2. UNIX, AIX, Solaris, Linux, Windows 98/2000/NT/XP/Vista, Windows Server 2003/2008.
• 3. MS-Office, MS-Front Page, MS ActiveSync, and Hyper-Terminal.
• 4. Putty SSH , VNC, WinSCP, and Wireless Connection Manager.
• 5. FTP, SFTP, TFTP, PING, iPERF, and TELNET.
• 6. CLARIFY, BMC Patrol, Remedy To monitor/update queues for customer issues and work in progress .

• Indepth knowledge of Netbackup 6.x and 7.x concepts.
• Perquisites of upgradation from NBU 6.x to NBU 7.x
• Hardware /software fault detection and vendor liaison
• Installation and configuration of Master/Media and clients.
• Working with Netbackup GUI
• Hands-on experience on configuring tape-drives, scheduling backup jobs/policies
• Configuration of Volume Pools, Storage Units, Policies, Tape drives and Robot.
• Moving Robot control from one host to another.
• Media management and media importing.
• Performing catalog backups and restores.
• Good knowledge of command Line interface of Netbackup.
• Knowledge on Netbackup SSO.
• Configuring Netbackup Replication to two different Netbackup domains.
• Configuring De-duplication.
• Configuring Database Backups Oracle Backups with and without RMAN
• Configuring Exchange backups with GRT that enables individual mailbox and mailbox items recovery.
• Configuring AD backup with GRT that enables individual item restore.
• Configuring and restoring SQL database backups.
• Configuring and restoring VMware VCB as well as vsphere based backups.
• Configuring and restoring HYPER-V VM backups.
• Configuring De-duplication puredisk backup using media server side, as well as client side de-duplication.
• Knowledge on Bare Metal Recovery BMR
• Configuring Archive Backups.
• Knowledge on Configuring and Maintaining NAS backups with and without using NDMP.
• Knowledge on Disk storage Units Basic Disk, Advance Disk, VTL
• Knowledge on Tape Libraries quantum and how to do logical partitioning, how to assign media ranges, How to assign tape drives using web interface.
• Knowledge on Disaster-Recovery
• Knowledge on ticketing tools like Remedy Service Now.
• Troubleshooting the backup issues by analyzing the Netbackup logs.
• Providing troubleshooting by checking logs in case of backup failures due to various reasons including hardware and software errors.
• Installation and configuration of Database agents.
• Providing contribution in critical restores including system restores and server recovery within SLA
• Handling ticket related to issues including request for restoration of data and providing end-to-end resolution against disaster recovery.
• Involved in root cause analysis of persistent failures and follow-ups in form of Service Restoration Team Meeting with different groups and teams including SDM, Server operations teams, End Product Company.
• Experience in developing AIX servers such as installing NIM servers, VIO servers, Solutions to critical errors based on the error report.

Confidential

NetBackup Administrator

• Configuration and maintenance of NetBackup 7.x and 7.1.0.4 Master and Media server
• Managed day to day activities as a main point of contact for any failed backup/restore jobs and provided technical assistance to resolve system problem and security issues with backup/restore functions in a timely fashion.
• Highly skilled in identifying problems and failures from network perspective and reviewed system logs to identify signs of potential problems.
• Managing backup policies, volume Pools for daily, weekly monthly backups.
• Managed configured a new Data Domain into the Environment.
• Introduced configured a new Media Server into the existing Environment.
• Monitored Managed Pure Disk 6.0.1 for remote / offsite plants
• Migrating the clients from tape drivers to Data Domain SLP's
• Configuration of SLP's for duplication from Data Domain to Tape
• Execute Reports in Ops Center to ensure the migration destination is confirmed
• Installed Java console and updated the patch to 7.6.0.2 to run GUI
• Maintained Documentation of the migration process to ensure proper records are kept
• Updated Service Now tickets to ensure proper corporate protocols are being met
• Monitored Data Domain capacity to ensure storage capacity is being used effectively.

Confidential

NetBackup Engineer / Administrator

• Planning and execution of NetBackup migration from Solaris 10 SPARC NetBackup infrastructure to RedHat 6 infrastructure.
• Thorough evaluation of design alternatives and establishing the NetBackup implementation design.
• Comparative analysis of clustering solutions for Master/Media servers identifying critical success factors with potential constraints and risk associated.
• Full Installation and Configuration of NetBackup 7.5 Master/Media server, with Master running in 2-node clustered configuration and later patching it to 7.5.0.4.
• Upgrading Netbackup Master and Media servers to 7.5 in the environment.
• Assisted Unix Engineer in troubleshooting and configuration of SFHA VCS 6.0.3.
• Fine-tuned the appliance and NBU to get a better throughput.
• Troubleshot new Tape Library HP EML 245e issues along with the encryption device.
• Configuration of storage life cycle policies for duplication, and vault for ejects.
• Migration of existing NetBackup clients to new backup environment.
• Prepared VMware Servers to be backed up and created policies and schedules for clients.
• Backed up clients on various platforms such as Solaris, RedHat, Linux, HP-UX.
• Created SLPS for backups to go to Data Domain and Tape for Duplication.
• Extensively used OpsCenter to generate variety of reports.

Confidential

NetBackup Engineer

• Configuration and maintenance of NetBackup 7.x, with NBU 7.5 Master and Media servers.
• Hands-on experience on HP EML E Series and StorageTek L700 Tape library.
• Configuration of NetBackup PureDisk Appliance 5220, from unboxing racking the appliance to installation to integrating the appliance in production environment as media server.
• Patching software's regularly for known issues to latest and greatest.
• Customized reports from OpsCenter Analytics' especially capacity planning for load balancing of PureDisk and MSDP Pools for best DeDuplication rates.
• Setting up Storage Life Cycle Policies, Disk Pools, disk storage Units, Vault and disk staging for duplications.
• Worked with software and hardware vendors like HP, Oracle, Cisco and Symantec from tape drive issues to intermittent packet loss in networks.
• Installation of NetBackup 7.x, 6.x Master/ Media Server and applying maintenance pack and upgrading NetBackup from 6.5 to 7.x and 7.1 to 7.5.
• Maintained regular tape rotation cycle for local and offsite storage of media to Iron Mountain.
• Kept documentation of the backup infrastructure up to date with resolutions, work arounds and known issues on SharePoint.
• Coordinate all upgrades and repairs and designing, implementing and daily monitoring and maintenance on production servers.
• Monitored backup servers and media storage devices and configuring Storage Units and Volume Pools.
• Disk Staging, Designing Policies, Media and Device Management and have extensive experience in NDMP Configuration.
• Upgrade the NetBackup master and media sever and also client to the latest release.
• Verify, retain and expire images as per requirement and configured robots, tape drives, storage units and volumes Pools.
• Worked with other IT teams to make sure all backups are performed in accordance with business policies.
• Highly skilled in identifying problems and failures from network perspective and reviewed system logs to identify signs of potential problems.
• Performed test restores on a regular basis to ensure the integrity of backups for both local and remote sites.
• Used USD ticketing tool to troubleshoot, new client adds, restores and other requests.
• Confidential
• Netbackup Administrator
• Configuration and maintenance of NetBackup 7.x and 7.5 Master and Media server.
• Upgrading NetBackup from 7.0 to 7.5 on master and media servers across environment.
• Managed day to day activities as a main point of contact for any failed backup/restore jobs and provided technical assistance to resolve system problem and security issues with backup/restore functions in a timely fashion.
• Utilized NetBackup and OS tools for resource allocation and log analysis.
• Participated in root-cause analysis reviews when applicable and documented best practices for operational procedures.
• Managing backup policies, volume Pools for daily, weekly monthly backups and moving clients from one data center to another.
• Tuning the NetBackup environment and patching NetBackup to latest patch level Configured storage units and disk staging.
• Provide reports for the entire backup and tape media and responsible for tracking the tape media from Vaulting site.
• Extensive experience with NetBackup common features such as Shared Storage Option SSO , NDMP, and Vaulting using media components such as IBMTS3500, Sun StorageTek L700 and ADIC i500 tape libraries with LTO3/LTO4 drives in a multiple robotic ACS environment and EMC Virtual Tape Library.
• Generated reports on master server to measure system performance and status.
• Performed file system admin tasks such as setting permissions, user account management, security configuration, resource allocation routine maintenance.
• Performed system management tasks for automation, notification, and optimization by modifying various scripts.
• Monitored active UNIX environment for performance and functionality using various utilities such as top, SAR, I/OStat, VMStat and netstat.
• Installed EMC Power Path and involved in Storage Area Network SAN administration.
• Built S85 RS/6000, created logical volumes, physical volumes, file systems using LVM, gave user privileges and monitored system performance.
• Created Logical Partitions of VIO Servers and VIO Clients on p-Series frame and assigning processor, memory and Ethernet adapters to VIOS and assigning memory and processor to VIOC LPARS .
• Installation and configuration of VIOS 1.5 Pack via NIM Server.
• Installation of AIX 5.3 on all VIOC/LPAR Clients, installation via NIM Sever.
• Configured Ether Channel by Link aggregation of two physical NIC's.
• Creating SEA Shared Ethernet Adapter to bridge between Ether channel and Virtual Ethernet Adapters.

Confidential

NetBackup Consultant

• Helping Clients patch up their NetBackup edition to the latest patch level to resolve the discrepancies with the previous NetBackup edition/patch level.
• Installation of NetBackup 7.1 Master/ Media Server and applying maintenance pack and upgrading NetBackup from 6.5 to 7.0.
• Configuring robots, tape drives storage units and volumes Pools and has extensive experience in tuning the NetBackup environment and automated Installation scripts for NetBackup.
• Configured the Robots, Tape drives and Volume Pools for EMC CDL VTL DL4206 and DL4200, Worked with Enterprise Tape libraries and associated technologies IBM 3584, Sun Storage Tek SL8500, SL700, SL500, IBM TS3500 tape library and ADIC i500.
• Performed backup using Disk Backup and Virtual Tape Libraries VTL and experience in configuring Vaulting.
• Configured the Backups of Database servers running on Oracle and SQL Server and responsible for monitoring and completion of all incoming backup and restore incident and service request workload to the required SLAs.
• Attendance on technical bridges with technology teams to drive resolution of incidents.
• Environmental oversight and root cause analysis for stability and reliability issues and timely resolution or escalation.
• Backup and restore data through tape drive and disk using NetBackup with installation, configuration, administration, and maintenance of VERITAS NetBackup application.
• Configuring and troubleshooting volume groups, logical volumes and file system with configuring storage units and disk staging.
• Troubleshooting of failed backup attempts to successfully backup all servers required to be backed up.
• Monitoring Maintaining NetBackup Environment and created or maintain necessary documentation and procedures in support of the backup infrastructure.
• Managing backup policies, volume Pools for daily, weekly monthly backups and provided reports for the entire backup and tape media and responsible for tracking the tape media from Vaulting site.