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Backup, Disaster Recovery & Server Monitoring

Protect systems with practical backup, restore, monitoring and recovery procedures.

BackupRestoreRPO/RTOMonitoringLogsAlertsRecovery Planning
Admissions Open
₹14,999 Indicative fee — update before production launch

Duration6 Weeks
FormatOnline / Classroom
LevelIntermediate
ScheduleWeekend batches
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Course overview

Learn the operational practices that keep infrastructure recoverable and observable. Understand backup strategies, retention, restore testing, RPO/RTO, monitoring, alerting, log review, capacity checks and incident-ready disaster recovery documentation.

What you will be able to do

Design a practical backup strategy
Test and document restores
Define RPO and RTO
Monitor server health and services
Create a disaster recovery runbook

Curriculum

Backup Fundamentals1 Week
Full, incremental and differential backups
Retention
3-2-1 concepts
Restore & Recovery1 Week
Restore testing
Recovery verification
RPO and RTO
Monitoring Foundations2 Weeks
Availability and resource metrics
Service checks
Alert thresholds
Logs & Incident Detection1 Week
Windows and Linux logs
Central logging concepts
Incident evidence
DR Capstone1 Week
Recovery runbooks
Failure simulation
Post-incident review

Projects you can build

Backup & Restore Plan

Design backup schedules, retention and restore tests for a small mixed-server environment.

Server Monitoring Dashboard Plan

Define metrics, checks, alerts and response actions for critical infrastructure.

Frequently asked questions

Do I need prior server administration experience?

No. Courses marked Beginner start with core concepts and guided labs. Intermediate courses assume basic operating-system and networking familiarity.

Are the courses practical?

Yes. Each course includes guided labs, troubleshooting exercises and a final infrastructure or administration project.

Can these courses help with system administrator roles?

They are designed to build practical skills used in helpdesk, system administration, server support, infrastructure operations and junior cloud operations roles.

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