Veritas NetBackup™ Deduplication Guide

Step 1

Remove client deduplication

Remove the clients that deduplicate their own data from the client deduplication list.

See Disabling MSDP client-side deduplication for a client.

Step 2

Delete the storage units that use the disk pool

See the NetBackup Administrator's Guide, Volume I:

http://www.veritas.com/docs/DOC5332

Step 3

Delete the disk pool

See Deleting a Media Server Deduplication Pool.

Step 4

Delete the deduplication storage server

See Deleting an MSDP storage server.

Deleting the deduplication storage server does not alter the contents of the storage on physical disk. To protect against inadvertent data loss, NetBackup does not automatically delete the storage when you delete the storage server.

Step 5

Delete the configuration

Delete the deduplication configuration.

See Deleting the MSDP storage server configuration.

Step 6

Delete the deduplication host configuration file

Each load balancing server contains a deduplication host configuration file. If you use load balancing servers, delete the deduplication host configuration file from those servers.

See Deleting an MSDP host configuration file.

Step 7

Delete the storage directory and the database directory

Delete the storage directory and database directory. (Using a separate database directory was an option when you configured deduplication.)

See the operating system documentation.