Veritas NetBackup™ Deduplication Guide
- Introducing the NetBackup media server deduplication option
- Planning your deployment
- About MSDP storage and connectivity requirements
- About NetBackup media server deduplication
- About NetBackup Client Direct deduplication
- About MSDP remote office client deduplication
- About MSDP performance
- MSDP deployment best practices
- Provisioning the storage
- Licensing deduplication
- Configuring deduplication
- Configuring the Deduplication Multi-Threaded Agent behavior
- Configuring the MSDP fingerprint cache behavior
- Configuring MSDP fingerprint cache seeding on the storage server
- Configuring a storage server for a Media Server Deduplication Pool
- Configuring a disk pool for deduplication
- Configuring a Media Server Deduplication Pool storage unit
- About MSDP optimized duplication within the same domain
- Configuring MSDP optimized duplication within the same NetBackup domain
- Configuring MSDP replication to a different NetBackup domain
- Creating a storage lifecycle policy
- Resilient Network properties
- Editing the MSDP pd.conf file
- About protecting the MSDP catalog
- Configuring an MSDP catalog backup
- Monitoring deduplication activity
- Managing deduplication
- Managing MSDP servers
- Managing NetBackup Deduplication Engine credentials
- Managing Media Server Deduplication Pools
- Changing a Media Server Deduplication Pool properties
- Configuring MSDP data integrity checking behavior
- About MSDP storage rebasing
- Managing MSDP servers
- Recovering MSDP
- Replacing MSDP hosts
- Uninstalling MSDP
- Deduplication architecture
- Troubleshooting
- About unified logging
- About legacy logging
- Troubleshooting MSDP installation issues
- Troubleshooting MSDP configuration issues
- Troubleshooting MSDP operational issues
- Appendix A. Migrating to MSDP storage
- Appendix B. NetBackup appliance deduplication
MSDP drcontrol options
The drcontrol utility resides in the following directories, depending on host type:
UNIX: /usr/openv/pdde/pdcr/bin
Windows: install_path\Veritas\pdde
The drcontrol utility creates a log file.
Table: MSDP drcontrol options for catalog backup and recovery describes the options for creating and updating an MSDP catalog backup policy.
Table: MSDP drcontrol options for catalog backup and recovery
Option | Description |
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--client host_name | The client to back up (that is, the host name of the MSDP storage server). Default: the value that bpgetconfig CLIENT_NAME returns. |
--hardware machine_type | The hardware type or the computer type for the host. Spaces are not allowed. If the string contains special characters, enclose it in double quotation marks ("). Default: Unknown. |
The pathname for the log file that the drcontrol utility creates. By default, the utility writes log files to /storage_path/log/drcontrol/. | |
--NB_install_dir install_directory | Windows only. Required option if NetBackup was installed in a location other than the default ( If the string contains spaces or special characters, enclose it in double quotation marks ("). Do not use a trailing backslash in the install_directory string. |
--new_policy | Create a new policy to protect the deduplication catalog on this host. If a policy with the given name exists already, the command fails. |
--OS operating_system | The operating system for the host. Spaces are not allowed. If the string contains special characters, enclose it in double quotation marks ("). Default: UNIX/Linux or MS-Windows. |
--policy policy_name | The name for the backup policy. Required with --auto_recover_DR and --update_policy; optional with --new_policy. Default: Dedupe_Catalog_shorthostname |
--refresh_shadow_catalog | Deletes all existing shadow catalog copies and creates a new catalog shadow copy. |
--verbose | Echo all drcontrol log statements to stdout. |
--residence residence | The name of the storage unit on which to store the MSDP catalog backups. Do not use the as the destination for the catalog backups. Recovery of the MSDP catalog from its is impossible.Veritas recommends that you use a storage unit that is attached to a NetBackup host other than the MSDP storage server. |
--update_policy | Update a policy, as follows:
This option fails if there is no policy with the given policy name. It also fails if the existing policy type is incompatible with the operating system of the host on which you run the command. This option requires the --policy policy_name option. |
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