Veritas NetBackup™ Deduplication Guide

Step 1

Install the license for deduplication

See Licensing NetBackup MSDP.

Step 2

Create NetBackup log file directories on the master server and the media servers

See NetBackup MSDP log files.

See Creating NetBackup log file directories for MSDP.

Step 3

Configure the Deduplication Multi-Threaded Agent behavior

The Deduplication Multi-Threaded Agent uses the default configuration values that control its behavior. You can change those values if you want to do so.

See About the MSDP Deduplication Multi-Threaded Agent.

See Configuring the Deduplication Multi-Threaded Agent behavior.

See Configuring deduplication plug-in interaction with the Multi-Threaded Agent.

Step 4

Configure the fingerprint cache behavior

Configuring the fingerprint cache behavior is optional.

See About the MSDP fingerprint cache.

See Configuring the MSDP fingerprint cache behavior.

Step 5

Enable support for 96-TB MSDP

Before you configure a storage server that hosts a 96-TB Media Server Deduplication Pool, you must enable support for that size storage.

See Enabling 96-TB support for MSDP.

Step 6

Configure a deduplication storage server

How many storage servers you configure depends on: your storage requirements and on whether or not you use optimized duplication or replication. When you configure a storage server, the wizard also lets you configure a disk pool and a storage unit.

See About MSDP storage servers.

See MSDP storage path properties.

See About MSDP optimized duplication and replication.

Which type of storage server to configure depends on the storage destination.

See About the NetBackup deduplication destinations.

See Configuring a storage server for a Media Server Deduplication Pool.

Step 7

Configure a disk pool

If you already configured a disk pool when you configured the storage server, you can skip this step.

How many disk pools you configure depends on: your storage requirements and on whether or not you use optimized duplication or replication.

See About disk pools for NetBackup deduplication.

See Configuring a disk pool for deduplication.

Step 8

Create the data directories for 96-TB support

For a 96-TB Media Server Deduplication Pool, you must create the data directories under the mount points for the storage directories.

See Creating the data directories for 96-TB MSDP support.

Step 9

Add the other volumes for 96-TB support

For a 96-TB Media Server Deduplication Pool, you must add the second and third volumes to the disk pool.

See Adding volumes to a 96-TB Media Server Deduplication Pool.

Step 10

Configure a storage unit

See Configuring a Media Server Deduplication Pool storage unit.

Step 11

Enable encryption

Encryption is optional.

See Configuring encryption for MSDP backups.

Step 12

Configure optimized synthetic backups

Optimized synthetic backups are optional.

See Configuring optimized synthetic backups for MSDP.

Step 13

Configure MSDP restore behavior

Optionally, you can configure NetBackup to bypass media servers during restores.

See How MSDP restores work.

See Configuring MSDP restores directly to a client.

Step 14

Configure optimized duplication copy

Optimized duplication is optional.

Step 15

Configure replication

Replication is optional.

Step 16

Configure a backup policy

Use the deduplication storage unit as the destination for the backup policy. If you configured replication, use the storage lifecycle policy as the storage destination.

See About MSDP backup policy configuration.

See Creating a backup policy.

Step 17

Specify advanced deduplication settings

Advanced settings are optional.

See About the MSDP pd.conf configuration file.

See Editing the MSDP pd.conf file.

See MSDP pd.conf file parameters.

Step 18

Protect the MSDP data and catalog

See About protecting the MSDP data.

See About protecting the MSDP catalog.