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Resume:
Rajesh V.
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TECHNICAL SUMMARY
Storage and Backup Administrator certified professional with around 7 years of experience in technical support, maintenance, production support of Storage, SAN, NAS, Backup and UNIX Systems and AIX/LINUX Administration and management Experience in Designing, Consulting and Implementation of Infrastructure and Management suites of products from EMC.
Hands on experience in installation, configuration and troubleshooting of NetBackup on UNIX and Wintel platforms.
Expertise in in Symantec NetBackup Enterprise 6.x & 7.x and Avamar 6.x, & 7.x Versions.
Design a backup Solution for data center environment on NetBackup and Avamar.
Replication of backups from production site to DR site for Disaster recovery on Avamar and NetBackup.
Installing and using avamar administration console and Account management.
Performing Daily avamar server maintenance activities and Validation of check points.
Hands on experience in configuring Master server and media servers on UNIX and Wintel platforms.
Configuring catalog backup and performing Disaster Recovery process.
Knowledge on backup processes and daemons running on Master Server, Media server and EMM server.
Interact with vendor pertaining to hardware and with Symantec support for resolution of critical issues related to NetBackup.
Knowledge on NetBackup Database components. Regular testing of DR Infrastructure.
Migration of Data from old tapes to new tapes or new Disks on NetBackup.
Importing the tapes and restore the data for the tapes that are expired.
Creation of user archive backups and advanced disk storage.
Manage and create the Disk Pools with Advanced disk storage.
Reports generation from NetBackup Ops Center from different NetBackup Domains.
Generate reports from different backup technologies using the EMC Data Protection Advisor.
Hands on experience in troubleshooting skills on Various Tape Libraries.
Cleaning the tape drives at regular intervals on NetBackup backup tool.
Troubleshooting on different error codes while taking backups and restores.
Configuring SQL & RMAN backups using the NetBackup and avamar backup tools.
Managing Daily, Weekly and Monthly Backup Operations.
Hands on experience on Verify. Duplication, Importing Medias.
Good Knowledge on integration of NetBackup with data domain and Avamar.
Creating NFS and CIFS shares on data domain. Configuration of NDMP backups.
Integration of Data Domain with Oracle and Ms-SQL Data bases.
Zoning the ports to UNIX and Wintel systems. Zoning the drives to the NetBackup media severs.
Monitoring Activity Monitor for any minor &major errors backups, Restores or any other Net backup operations.
NetBackup Bare Metal Restore Configuration and deploying them on clients.
Restoring clients from Bare Metal Restore.
Configuration of NetBackup AIR (Auto Image replication) and replicated the images on both domains.
Working on change orders and approve some change orders.
Good knowledge on ITSM tools like Remedy and Service Now.
Capable in handling Priority 1 and priority Incident and resolve the within the Predefined SLA.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Storage Arrays : VNX, NetApp, and Pure Storage
Operating Systems : Windows 2000/2003/2008/2012/XP/8, LINUX, AIX, ESX
Tools/utilities : EMC Avamar 6.x,7.1,7.2, 7.3, Data Domain 4200, 4500, DD860,VERITAS NetBackup 6.5, 7.5, 7.6, 7.7.3, IBM & SUN Tape Libraries’, VCenter. Service Now, Remedy, USD.
EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS
Bachelors in Computer science and engineering, JNTU, India
Symantec certified specialist on NetBackup 7.5 on UNIX.
Certified by cisco in CCNA routing and switching.
Planning to complete EMC in feb-2017.
Trained with EMC on EMC Avamar 7.3 Administration and management.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
STF Chicago, Bloomington, IL 04/2016 – 11/2016
Storage &Backup Engineer
Responsibilities:
Installation and Configuration of Master, Media servers and clients.
Implemented backup solution across 2 sites and configured 2 Master/4 Media servers and 1800 Clients.
Installing NetBackup client servers. Monitor the tape drives and produce tape drive issues report.
Configured the Disk Pools and Disk storage servers for disk based backups.
Configured Storage Life Cycle policy backups using Slp window feature in NetBackup 7.6.
Perform Backup and Restore operation on NetBackup application for windows and UNIX Servers
.Monitoring Activity Monitor for any minor &major errors backups, Restores.
Managing Backup policies, Volume pools for Daily, weekly, Monthly backups on NetBackup.
Troubleshooting on various problems while taking backups and restores.
Implementation of newer Backup solution on NetBackup and avamar.
Migrated the data from Lto3 tapes to Lto5 tapes.
Recovered NetBackup Master server from online catalog backup
Configured the backups for Microsoft Sql server using the batch files.
Importing the tapes and restored the data to the client in case of images are expired.
NetBackup Bare Metal Restore Configuration and deploying them on clients.
Working with the onsite team for operational and technical issues.
Cleaning the tape drives at regular intervals on NetBackup.
Design a backup solution on Avamar with integration of data domain.
Maintenance of avamar during the maintenance window.
Create Datasets, schedules and retention to a Group and schedule the backups in avamar.
Replication of backups from one avamar grid to other Grid using the Standard replication method design a
Install Plugging’s in avamar and schedule the Application backups accordingly.
User management and authenticating the user with LDAP integration on Avamar.
Generate the reports using the tool Avamar BRM (Backup Resource Manager).
Install the Client manager to push the avamar client updates.
Performing restores on avamar and increasing the retention period for the backups.
Trouble shoot the communication issues on both the NetBackup and avamar backup tools.
Working on Tickets basing on the severity level and closing the Tickets.
Performing Catalog Backups and recovery and Importing Images.
Hands on experience in SQL (sequel) restoration On Avamar.
Running Standard and custom reports on avamar.
Configure Virtual Machine backups on Avamar and NetBackup.
Collection of statistics of NetBackup avamar and Data Domain with EMC Data Protection Adviser.
Environment.
NetBackup:- 7.7 Version 4 Master Servers,14 Media servers,2 Data Domains,One shared Tape Library,
1500 Clients.
Avamar:- 7.3 version 2 Multi Nodes with each 14 Storage nodes.1000 Client machine’s.
Motorola Solutions, ETS (Computer Sciences Corporation) Chicago, IL 06/2013-03/2016
Backup Engineer.
Responsibilities:
Installation & Configuration of Symantec NetBackup Server & Client in UNIX and Wintel platforms.
Installation of Avamar Plugin on windows, Linux, oracle and Sql servers.
Performed various restore like file system and database restores in both Avamar and NetBackup.
Installed the DD-Boost Plugin on Media servers and configured the backups to Data Domain.
Avamar User account Administration and Management.
Created shares on Data Domain and assigned it to NetBackup media server and Avamar nodes.
Installation of Plugins for database,Exchange,oracle and NDMP backups
Configuring SLP Storage units for the duplication backups.
Hands on experience in VM (Virtual Machine) backups on Avamar and NetBackup.
Configuration of catalog backups and recovering the NetBackup Master server from Catalog backup.
Managing daily maintenance activities on avamar.
Raise a case with EMC in case of Data Nodes or Utility node down.
Trouble shooting different kinds of error codes received during backup and restore.
Ensure that the technical problems are dealt with efficiently and effectively, to minimize service downtime and meet service level agreements.
Experience with ITIL Processes of Incidents, Problem and Change Management.
Performing Robot inventory and update volume configuration on NetBackup.
Available 24X7 support whenever required the support.
Handling escalated Data restore request from the Customer.
Checking the daemons and Unified and legacy Logs for troubleshoot purpose.
Performing backups with DSSU storage units.
Implementation of Backups in a Cluster Environment
Configuring, performing the vaulting and move the secondary copy to offsite (Iron Mountain).
Monitoring the File System and CPU load for better performance.
Configuring SAN Media server backups.
Logging case and working with Symantec regarding NetBackup issues.
Raising cases with Oracle (SUN) support, HP, IBM support to resolve tape drive and tape library issues.
Performing Full backup and Archive backups of Multiple Databases.
Configuring Media manager, volume pools.
Configured backups in various clients like windows UNIX VMware on Avamar backup tool.
Installing the avamar agents on different clients.
Garbage collection and Validate check points during the maintenance window.
Configuring the tape drives during addition and replacement of Tape drives in the Tape library.
Environment.
NetBackup: Version 7.5, 18 Master servers, 29 Media servers, 2500 Clients 5 Shared Libraries 6 Data Domains.
Avamar: - Version 7.1 2 Multi Node servers 4 Single node Servers, 1500 Client Machine’s.
3GCELLLABS, India 01/2010- 05/2013
Storage Administrator
Responsibilities:
•Configuring the Backups of windows and UNIX client’s machines using the Avamar and NetBackup.
•Installation, configuration and management of (VERITAS) Symantec NetBackup in Master and Media Servers.
•Configuring the tapes and disk based Backups for Backup Exec $ NetBackup technology.
•Locking and unlocking the Library’s for the Backup exec technology.
•Performing the restores of files/Folders for Avamar and NetBackup.
•Configured newly added Robot devices and tape drives on NetBackup.
•Increase the Retention of images for special requests on NetBackup.
•Configuration of Slp backups and duplication of primary copy.
•Creation of Disk pools from advanced disk and assign it to media server for advanced disk backups.
•Involved in migration of data from Old tapes to he advanced disk.
•Worked on change orders like updating the patches on NetBackup.
•Created storage unit and storage unit groups on NetBackup.
•Integration of data domain with Avamar for oracle backups.
•Labeling the media’s id on CA Arc serve technology.
•Creating & configure backup policies, storage units, volume pool & the Storage lifecycle policies (SLP).
•Installing NetBackup client agent on client servers & add it to backup policy.
•Taking Daily, Weekly backups on regular basis using Symantec NetBackup 7.1.
•Managing catalog backup for all master servers & recovery.
•Creation of Volume Pools. Assigning Backup media for different Volume Pools and Configure Storage device and Catalog backup.
•Troubleshooting the backup device failures on VERITAS netback up
•Taking Backup & Restoration in Windows.
•Monitoring and Troubleshooting the VERITAS Netback up problems
•Coordinated with On-site tapes operations person for Media rotation.
•Experience with ITIL Processes of Incidents, Problem and Change Management.
Environment:-
NetBackup:-2 Master Servers on 6.5 and 7.1 versions 10 Media servers 600 Client Servers
Arc serve: - 12.5 version with 6 master servers and 13 standalone tape drives with 50 Client machine’s.
Avamar:-Two standalone grids with 100 client Servers
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