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
- About MSDP Encryption using KMS service
- 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
- About NetBackup Auto Image Replication
- Configuring a target for MSDP replication to a remote 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
- Viewing MSDP job details
- 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
Configuring an MSDP catalog backup
Use the following procedure to configure a backup policy for the NetBackup MSDP catalog.
See About protecting the MSDP data.
To configure an MSDP catalog backup
- Verify that the MSDP storage server host (that is, the media server) is an additional server for the NetBackup master server. See NetBackup Management > Host Properties > masterserver_name > Servers > Additional Servers in the NetBackup Administration Console.
If the storage server is not in the Additional Servers list, add the MSDP storage server host to the Additional Servers list. The host must be in the Additional Servers list and cannot be in the Media Servers list.
- On the MSDP storage server, invoke the drcontrol utility and use the appropriate options for your needs. The following is the syntax for the utility:
Windows: install_path\Veritas\pdde\drcontrol --new_policy --residence residence [--policy policy_name] [--client host_name] [--hardware machine_type] [--OS operating_system] [--NB_install_dir install_directory]
UNIX: /usr/openv/pdde/pdcr/bin/drcontrol --new_policy --residence residence [--policy policy_name] [--disk_pool disk_pool_name] [--client host_name] [--hardware machine_type] [--OS operating_system]
Descriptions of the options are available in another topic. Note: To ensure that NetBackup activates the policy, you must specify the --residence residence option.
The utility creates a log file and displays its path in the command output.
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