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
Planning your MSDP deployment
Table: Deployment overview provides an overview of planning your deployment of NetBackup deduplication.
Table: Deployment overview
Step | Deployment task | Where to find the information |
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Step 1 | Learn about deduplication nodes and storage destinations | |
Step 2 | Understand the storage capacity and requirements | |
Step 3 | Determine which type of deduplication to use | See About NetBackup media server deduplication. |
Step 4 | Determine the requirements for deduplication hosts | See About MSDP storage servers. See About MSDP server requirements. See About MSDP client deduplication requirements and limitations. See About the network interface for MSDP. See About scaling MSDP. |
Step 5 | Determine the credentials for deduplication | |
Step 6 | Read about compression and encryption | |
Step 7 | Read about optimized synthetic backups | |
Step 8 | Read about deduplication and SAN Client | |
Step 9 | Read about optimized duplication and replication | |
Step 10 | Read about stream handlers | |
Step 11 | Read about best practices for implementation | |
Step 12 | Determine the storage requirements and provision the storage | See About provisioning the storage for MSDP. See About MSDP storage and connectivity requirements. |
Step 13 | License MSDP | |
Step 14 | Configure MSDP | |
Step 15 | Migrate from other storage to NetBackup deduplication |
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