Veritas NetBackup™ Deduplication Guide
- Introducing the NetBackup media server deduplication option
- Planning your deployment
- Planning your MSDP deployment
- NetBackup naming conventions
- About MSDP deduplication nodes
- About the NetBackup deduplication destinations
- About MSDP storage capacity
- About MSDP storage and connectivity requirements
- About NetBackup media server deduplication
- About NetBackup Client Direct deduplication
- About MSDP remote office client deduplication
- About the NetBackup Deduplication Engine credentials
- About the network interface for MSDP
- About MSDP port usage
- About MSDP optimized synthetic backups
- About MSDP and SAN Client
- About MSDP optimized duplication and replication
- About MSDP performance
- About MSDP stream handlers
- MSDP deployment best practices
- Use fully qualified domain names
- About scaling MSDP
- Send initial full backups to the storage server
- Increase the number of MSDP jobs gradually
- Introduce MSDP load balancing servers gradually
- Implement MSDP client deduplication gradually
- Use MSDP compression and encryption
- About the optimal number of backup streams for MSDP
- About storage unit groups for MSDP
- About protecting the MSDP data
- Save the MSDP storage server configuration
- Plan for disk write caching
- Provisioning the storage
- Licensing deduplication
- Configuring deduplication
- Configuring MSDP server-side deduplication
- Configuring MSDP client-side deduplication
- About the MSDP Deduplication Multi-Threaded Agent
- Configuring the Deduplication Multi-Threaded Agent behavior
- Configuring deduplication plug-in interaction with the Multi-Threaded Agent
- About MSDP fingerprinting
- About the MSDP fingerprint cache
- Configuring the MSDP fingerprint cache behavior
- About seeding the MSDP fingerprint cache for remote client deduplication
- Configuring MSDP fingerprint cache seeding on the client
- Configuring MSDP fingerprint cache seeding on the storage server
- Enabling 96-TB support for MSDP
- About MSDP Encryption using KMS service
- Configuring a storage server for a Media Server Deduplication Pool
- Configuring a storage server for a PureDisk Deduplication Pool
- About disk pools for NetBackup deduplication
- Configuring a disk pool for deduplication
- Creating the data directories for 96-TB MSDP support
- Adding volumes to a 96-TB Media Server Deduplication Pool
- Configuring a Media Server Deduplication Pool storage unit
- Configuring client attributes for MSDP client-side deduplication
- Disabling MSDP client-side deduplication for a client
- About MSDP compression
- About MSDP encryption
- MSDP compression and encryption settings matrix
- Configuring encryption for MSDP backups
- Configuring encryption for MSDP optimized duplication and replication
- About the rolling data conversion mechanism for MSDP
- Modes of rolling data conversion
- MSDP encryption behavior and compatibilities
- Configuring optimized synthetic backups for MSDP
- About a separate network path for MSDP duplication and replication
- Configuring a separate network path for MSDP duplication and replication
- About MSDP optimized duplication within the same domain
- Configuring MSDP optimized duplication within the same NetBackup domain
- About MSDP replication to a different domain
- Configuring MSDP replication to a different NetBackup domain
- About NetBackup Auto Image Replication
- About trusted master servers for Auto Image Replication
- About the certificate to be used for adding a trusted master server
- Adding a trusted master server using NetBackup CA-signed (host ID-based) certificate
- Adding a trusted master server using external CA-signed certificate
- Removing a trusted master server
- Enabling NetBackup clustered master server inter-node authentication
- Configuring NetBackup CA and NetBackup host ID-based certificate for secure communication between the source and the target MSDP storage servers
- Configuring external CA for secure communication between the source MSDP storage server and the target MSDP storage server
- Configuring a target for MSDP replication to a remote domain
- About configuring MSDP optimized duplication and replication bandwidth
- About storage lifecycle policies
- About the storage lifecycle policies required for Auto Image Replication
- Creating a storage lifecycle policy
- About MSDP backup policy configuration
- Creating a backup policy
- Resilient Network properties
- Specifying resilient connections
- Adding an MSDP load balancing server
- About variable-length deduplication on NetBackup clients
- About the MSDP pd.conf configuration file
- Editing the MSDP pd.conf file
- About the MSDP contentrouter.cfg file
- About saving the MSDP storage server configuration
- Saving the MSDP storage server configuration
- Editing an MSDP storage server configuration file
- Setting the MSDP storage server configuration
- About the MSDP host configuration file
- Deleting an MSDP host configuration file
- Resetting the MSDP registry
- About protecting the MSDP catalog
- Changing the MSDP shadow catalog path
- Changing the MSDP shadow catalog schedule
- Changing the number of MSDP catalog shadow copies
- Configuring an MSDP catalog backup
- Updating an MSDP catalog backup policy
- About MSDP FIPS compliance
- Configuring deduplication to the cloud with NetBackup CloudCatalyst
- Using NetBackup CloudCatalyst to upload deduplicated data to the cloud
- CloudCatalyst requirements and limitations
- Configuring a Linux media server as a CloudCatalyst storage server
- Configuring a CloudCatalyst storage server for deduplication to the cloud
- How to configure a NetBackup CloudCatalyst Appliance
- How to configure a Linux media server as a CloudCatalyst storage server
- Configuring a CloudCatalyst storage server as the target for the deduplications from MSDP storage servers
- Managing CloudCatalyst storage server with IAM Role or CREDS_CAPS credential broker type
- Configuring a storage lifecycle policy for NetBackup CloudCatalyst
- About the CloudCatalyst esfs.json configuration file
- About the CloudCatalyst cache
- Controlling data traffic to the cloud when using CloudCatalyst
- Configuring source control or target control optimized duplication for CloudCatalyst
- Decommissioning CloudCatalyst cloud storage
- NetBackup CloudCatalyst workflow processes
- Disaster Recovery for CloudCatalyst
- Monitoring deduplication activity
- Monitoring the MSDP deduplication and compression rates
- Viewing MSDP job details
- About MSDP storage capacity and usage reporting
- About MSDP container files
- Viewing storage usage within MSDP container files
- Viewing MSDP disk reports
- About monitoring MSDP processes
- Reporting on Auto Image Replication jobs
- Managing deduplication
- Managing MSDP servers
- Viewing MSDP storage servers
- Determining the MSDP storage server state
- Viewing MSDP storage server attributes
- Setting MSDP storage server attributes
- Changing MSDP storage server properties
- Clearing MSDP storage server attributes
- About changing the MSDP storage server name or storage path
- Changing the MSDP storage server name or storage path
- Removing an MSDP load balancing server
- Deleting an MSDP storage server
- Deleting the MSDP storage server configuration
- Managing NetBackup Deduplication Engine credentials
- Managing Media Server Deduplication Pools
- Viewing Media Server Deduplication Pools
- Determining the Media Server Deduplication Pool state
- Changing Media Server Deduplication Pool state
- Viewing Media Server Deduplication Pool attributes
- Setting a Media Server Deduplication Pool attribute
- Changing a Media Server Deduplication Pool properties
- Clearing a Media Server Deduplication Pool attribute
- Determining the MSDP disk volume state
- Changing the MSDP disk volume state
- Inventorying a NetBackup disk pool
- Deleting a Media Server Deduplication Pool
- Deleting backup images
- About MSDP queue processing
- Processing the MSDP transaction queue manually
- About MSDP data integrity checking
- Configuring MSDP data integrity checking behavior
- About managing MSDP storage read performance
- About MSDP storage rebasing
- About the MSDP data removal process
- Resizing the MSDP storage partition
- How MSDP restores work
- Configuring MSDP restores directly to a client
- About restoring files at a remote site
- About restoring from a backup at a target master domain
- Specifying the restore server
- Managing MSDP servers
- Recovering MSDP
- Replacing MSDP hosts
- Uninstalling MSDP
- Deduplication architecture
- Troubleshooting
- About unified logging
- About legacy logging
- NetBackup MSDP log files
- Troubleshooting MSDP installation issues
- Troubleshooting MSDP configuration issues
- Troubleshooting MSDP operational issues
- Verify that the MSDP server has sufficient memory
- MSDP backup or duplication job fails
- MSDP client deduplication fails
- MSDP volume state changes to DOWN when volume is unmounted
- MSDP errors, delayed response, hangs
- Cannot delete an MSDP disk pool
- MSDP media open error (83)
- MSDP media write error (84)
- MSDP no images successfully processed (191)
- MSDP storage full conditions
- Troubleshooting MSDP catalog backup
- Viewing MSDP disk errors and events
- MSDP event codes and messages
- Troubleshooting CloudCatalyst issues
- CloudCatalyst logs
- Problems encountered while using the Cloud Storage Server Configuration Wizard
- Disk pool problems
- Problems during cloud storage server configuration
- Status 191: No images were successfully processed
- Media write error (84) if due to a full local cache directory
- Trouble restarting ESFS after the CloudCatalyst storage server is down
- Restarting the vxesfsd process
- Problems restarting vxesfsd
- CloudCatalyst troubleshooting tools
- Appendix A. Migrating to MSDP storage
CloudCatalyst requirements and limitations
The CloudCatalyst storage server is a dedicated media server for MSDP deduplicated cloud storage. The media server must be either a NetBackup appliance or a Linux media server, as described in Table: The types of media servers that can be used as CloudCatalyst storage servers.
Table: The types of media servers that can be used as CloudCatalyst storage servers
Host | Version |
|---|---|
NetBackup appliance | Veritas NetBackup CloudCatalyst Appliance |
NetBackup media server | Red Hat Enterprise Linux, 7.3 or later NetBackup 8.1 or later See Configuring a Linux media server as a CloudCatalyst storage server. |
The CloudCatalyst storage server can work with a proxy server when the NTLM authentication method is used. The proxy server must follow certain requirements to function inside of the NetBackup system. The following items are required only when the NTLM authentication method is used. When the BASIC authentication method or NONE is selected, there is no such requirement.
Requirements for a proxy server:
The proxy server must support both NTLMv1 and NTLMv2.
CloudCatalyst is dependent on Classic Cloud Connector to get the list of buckets.
The Classic Cloud Connector only supports NTLMv1, and not NTLMv2.
CloudCatalyst only supports NTLMv2.
Note:
A CloudCatalyst storage server is supported for Auto Image Replication (A.I.R.) and Target A.I.R. as the source and the target from NetBackup 8.1.2 Draft or later.
NetBackup CloudCatalyst recognizes nearly all other MSDP features and capabilities.
See the NetBackup compatibility lists for updated information on supported cloud vendors and feature support:
http://www.netbackup.com/compatibility
The following are current exclusions or limitations:
Support limitations as listed in the NetBackup Cloud Administrator's Guide:
The NetBackup media servers that you use as CloudCatalyst storage servers must be the same NetBackup version as the master server.
Load balancing for CloudCatalyst storage servers or CloudCatalyst appliances is supported. See the following topic for configuration considerations.
See Configuring source control or target control optimized duplication for CloudCatalyst.
OpsCenter cannot report on the data that CloudCatalyst storage servers upload to the cloud.
A single media server cannot be both an MSDP storage server and a CloudCatalyst storage server.
A CloudCatalyst storage server is supported as the target for A.I.R. when the storage server is selected from the drop-down list of the trusted master server.
NetBackup Client Direct deduplication is supported in a CloudCatalyst duplication to cloud scenario. However, Client Direct deduplication is not supported in a scenario where the backup is uploaded directly to the cloud and no duplication is configured.
Direct backup to CloudCatalyst using the accelerator option is not supported when Amazon S3 Glacier or Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive storage classes are used. Backup to an MSDP with accelerator and then optimized duplication to CloudCatalyst is supported.