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
- Configuring deduplication to the cloud with NetBackup CloudCatalyst
- Using NetBackup CloudCatalyst to upload deduplicated data to the cloud
- Configuring a CloudCatalyst storage server for deduplication to the cloud
- 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
- Troubleshooting CloudCatalyst issues
- CloudCatalyst logs
- Problems encountered while using the Cloud Storage Server Configuration Wizard
- Disk pool problems
- Problems during cloud storage server configuration
- CloudCatalyst troubleshooting tools
- Appendix A. Migrating to MSDP storage
About MSDP encryption
NetBackup provides encryption for the deduplicated data. It is separate from and different than NetBackup policy-based encryption. By default, MSDP encryption is disabled.
Table: MSDP encryption options describes the encryption options.
A different topic describes the interaction of the encryption and the compression settings for MSDP.
See MSDP compression and encryption settings matrix.
Table: MSDP encryption options
Option | Description |
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Backup encryption | For backups, the deduplication plug-in encrypts the data after it is deduplicated. The data remains encrypted during transfer from the plug-in to the NetBackup Deduplication Engine on the storage server. The Deduplication Engine writes the encrypted data to the storage. For restore jobs, the process functions in the reverse direction. The MSDP
See Configuring encryption for MSDP backups. Note: Do not enable backup encryption by selecting the Attributes tab of the Policy dialog box. If you do, NetBackup encrypts the data before it reaches the plug-in that deduplicates it. Consequently, deduplication rates are very low. Also, NetBackup does not use the Deduplication Multi-Threaded Agent if policy-based encryption is configured. option on the |
Duplication and replication encryption | For duplication and replication, the deduplication plug-in on MSDP servers encrypts the data for transfer. The data is encrypted during transfer from the plug-in to the NetBackup Deduplication Engine on the target storage server and remains encrypted on the target storage. The MSDP
Duplication and replication encryption does not apply to clients. NetBackup chooses the least busy host to initiate and manage each duplication job and replication job. See Configuring encryption for MSDP optimized duplication and replication. |
NetBackup 8.0 introduced the Advanced Encryption Standard 256 bit, CTR (AES) encryption algorithm to Media Server Deduplication Pool (MSDP). The AES encryption algorithm replaces the older Blowfish encryption algorithm.