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 storage servers
A storage server is an entity that writes to and reads from the storage. One host functions as the storage server, and only one storage server exists for each NetBackup deduplication node. The host must be a NetBackup media server. Although the storage server components run on a media server, the storage server is a separate logical entity.
See About MSDP deduplication nodes.
The MSDP storage server does the following:
Receives the backups from clients and then deduplicates the data.
Receives the deduplicated data from clients or from other media servers.
You can configure NetBackup clients and other NetBackup media servers to deduplicate data also. In which case, the storage server only receives the data after it is deduplicated.
Writes the deduplicated data to and reads the deduplicated data from the disk storage.
Manages that storage.
Manages the deduplication processes.
How many storage servers (and by extension, nodes) you configure depends on your storage requirements. It also depends on whether or not you use optimized duplication or replication, as follows:
Optimized duplication in the same domain requires at least two deduplication nodes in the same domain. The following are the required storage servers:
One for the backup storage, which is the source for the duplication operations.
Another to store the copies of the backup images, which are the target for the duplication operations.
See About MSDP optimized duplication within the same domain.
Auto Image Replication to another domain requires the following storage servers:
One for the backups in the originating NetBackup domain. This storage server writes the NetBackup client backups to the storage. It is the source for the duplication operations.
Another in the remote NetBackup domain for the copies of the backup images. This storage server is the target for the duplication operations that run in the originating domain.