Veritas NetBackup™ Deduplication Guide
- Introducing the NetBackup media server deduplication option
- Planning your deployment
- Planning your MSDP deployment
- NetBackup naming conventions
- About MSDP deduplication nodes
- About the NetBackup deduplication destinations
- About MSDP storage capacity
- About MSDP storage and connectivity requirements
- About NetBackup media server deduplication
- About NetBackup Client Direct deduplication
- About MSDP remote office client deduplication
- About the NetBackup Deduplication Engine credentials
- About the network interface for MSDP
- About MSDP port usage
- About MSDP optimized synthetic backups
- About MSDP and SAN Client
- About MSDP optimized duplication and replication
- About MSDP performance
- About MSDP stream handlers
- MSDP deployment best practices
- Use fully qualified domain names
- About scaling MSDP
- Send initial full backups to the storage server
- Increase the number of MSDP jobs gradually
- Introduce MSDP load balancing servers gradually
- Implement MSDP client deduplication gradually
- Use MSDP compression and encryption
- About the optimal number of backup streams for MSDP
- About storage unit groups for MSDP
- About protecting the MSDP data
- Save the MSDP storage server configuration
- Plan for disk write caching
- Provisioning the storage
- Licensing deduplication
- Configuring deduplication
- Configuring MSDP server-side deduplication
- Configuring MSDP client-side deduplication
- About the MSDP Deduplication Multi-Threaded Agent
- Configuring the Deduplication Multi-Threaded Agent behavior
- Configuring deduplication plug-in interaction with the Multi-Threaded Agent
- About MSDP fingerprinting
- About the MSDP fingerprint cache
- Configuring the MSDP fingerprint cache behavior
- About seeding the MSDP fingerprint cache for remote client deduplication
- Configuring MSDP fingerprint cache seeding on the client
- Configuring MSDP fingerprint cache seeding on the storage server
- Enabling 96-TB support for MSDP
- Configuring a storage server for a Media Server Deduplication Pool
- Configuring a storage server for a PureDisk Deduplication Pool
- About disk pools for NetBackup deduplication
- Configuring a disk pool for deduplication
- Creating the data directories for 96-TB MSDP support
- Adding volumes to a 96-TB Media Server Deduplication Pool
- Configuring a Media Server Deduplication Pool storage unit
- Configuring client attributes for MSDP client-side deduplication
- Disabling MSDP client-side deduplication for a client
- About MSDP compression
- About MSDP encryption
- MSDP compression and encryption settings matrix
- Configuring encryption for MSDP backups
- Configuring encryption for MSDP optimized duplication and replication
- MSDP encryption behavior and compatibilities
- Configuring optimized synthetic backups for MSDP
- About a separate network path for MSDP duplication and replication
- Configuring a separate network path for MSDP duplication and replication
- About MSDP optimized duplication within the same domain
- Configuring MSDP optimized duplication within the same NetBackup domain
- About MSDP replication to a different domain
- Configuring MSDP replication to a different NetBackup domain
- About configuring MSDP optimized duplication and replication bandwidth
- About storage lifecycle policies
- About the storage lifecycle policies required for Auto Image Replication
- Creating a storage lifecycle policy
- About MSDP backup policy configuration
- Creating a backup policy
- Resilient Network properties
- Specifying resilient connections
- Adding an MSDP load balancing server
- About the MSDP pd.conf configuration file
- Editing the MSDP pd.conf file
- About the MSDP contentrouter.cfg file
- About saving the MSDP storage server configuration
- Saving the MSDP storage server configuration
- Editing an MSDP storage server configuration file
- Setting the MSDP storage server configuration
- About the MSDP host configuration file
- Deleting an MSDP host configuration file
- Resetting the MSDP registry
- About protecting the MSDP catalog
- Changing the MSDP shadow catalog path
- Changing the MSDP shadow catalog schedule
- Changing the number of MSDP catalog shadow copies
- Configuring an MSDP catalog backup
- Updating an MSDP catalog backup policy
- Monitoring deduplication activity
- Managing deduplication
- Managing MSDP servers
- Viewing MSDP storage servers
- Determining the MSDP storage server state
- Viewing MSDP storage server attributes
- Setting MSDP storage server attributes
- Changing MSDP storage server properties
- Clearing MSDP storage server attributes
- About changing the MSDP storage server name or storage path
- Changing the MSDP storage server name or storage path
- Removing an MSDP load balancing server
- Deleting an MSDP storage server
- Deleting the MSDP storage server configuration
- Managing NetBackup Deduplication Engine credentials
- Managing Media Server Deduplication Pools
- Viewing Media Server Deduplication Pools
- Determining the Media Server Deduplication Pool state
- Changing Media Server Deduplication Pool state
- Viewing Media Server Deduplication Pool attributes
- Setting a Media Server Deduplication Pool attribute
- Changing a Media Server Deduplication Pool properties
- Clearing a Media Server Deduplication Pool attribute
- Determining the MSDP disk volume state
- Changing the MSDP disk volume state
- Inventorying a NetBackup disk pool
- Deleting a Media Server Deduplication Pool
- Deleting backup images
- About MSDP queue processing
- Processing the MSDP transaction queue manually
- About MSDP data integrity checking
- Configuring MSDP data integrity checking behavior
- About managing MSDP storage read performance
- About MSDP storage rebasing
- About the MSDP data removal process
- Resizing the MSDP storage partition
- How MSDP restores work
- Configuring MSDP restores directly to a client
- About restoring files at a remote site
- About restoring from a backup at a target master domain
- Specifying the restore server
- Managing MSDP servers
- Recovering MSDP
- Replacing MSDP hosts
- Uninstalling MSDP
- Deduplication architecture
- Troubleshooting
- About unified logging
- About legacy logging
- NetBackup MSDP log files
- Troubleshooting MSDP installation issues
- Troubleshooting MSDP configuration issues
- Troubleshooting MSDP operational issues
- Verify that the MSDP server has sufficient memory
- MSDP backup or duplication job fails
- MSDP client deduplication fails
- MSDP volume state changes to DOWN when volume is unmounted
- MSDP errors, delayed response, hangs
- Cannot delete an MSDP disk pool
- MSDP media open error (83)
- MSDP media write error (84)
- MSDP no images successfully processed (191)
- MSDP storage full conditions
- Troubleshooting MSDP catalog backup
- Viewing MSDP disk errors and events
- MSDP event codes and messages
- Appendix A. Migrating to MSDP storage
- Appendix B. NetBackup appliance deduplication
About NetBackup appliance deduplication
NetBackup appliances are solutions from Veritas that combine a host and storage with the Veritas backup software. The appliances offer customers easy and convenient deployment options for Veritas's industry-leading backup and deduplication technologies. The appliances enable efficient, storage-optimized data protection for the data center, remote office, and virtual environments.
The Veritas NetBackup appliance families consist of the following series:
NetBackup 5200 series | The NetBackup 5200 series of enterprise backup appliances is based on the NetBackup backup software. |
NetBackup 5300 series | The NetBackup 5300 series of enterprise backup appliances is based on the NetBackup backup software. The series delivers high performance, scalable capacity, and greater reliability to meet the most aggressive backup and recovery objectives in the data center. NetBackup offers both client deduplication and target deduplication to reduce network and storage requirements. |
For the storage capacities of the NetBackup appliances, see their release notes at the following URL:
http://www.veritas.com/docs/DOC2792
The NetBackup appliances share many common features, as follows:
Easy to install, configure, and use.
Modular capacity to fulfill your storage needs.
A solution for the data center, remote office and branch office, and virtual machine backups. Source or target deduplication. Optimized synthetic backup to minimize data movement. Tape support for long-term data retention.
Built in disk to disk replication for disaster recovery and an alternative solution to tape based vaulting
Enterprise-class hardware and software. Hardware monitoring with a Call Home feature.
More information about the NetBackup backup appliances is available.