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
- About MSDP stream handlers
- 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 NetBackup 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
- About NetBackup WORM storage support for immutable and indelible data
- Configuring deduplication to the cloud with NetBackup Cloud Catalyst
- Using NetBackup Cloud Catalyst to upload deduplicated data to the cloud
- Configuring a Cloud Catalyst storage server for deduplication to the cloud
- MSDP cloud support
- About MSDP cloud support
- 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 Cloud Catalyst issues
- Cloud Catalyst logs
- Problems encountered while using the Cloud Storage Server Configuration Wizard
- Disk pool problems
- Problems during cloud storage server configuration
- Cloud Catalyst troubleshooting tools
- Trouble shooting multi-domain issues
- Appendix A. Migrating to MSDP storage
Configuring a storage server for a Media Server Deduplication Pool
Configure in this context means to configure a NetBackup media server as a storage server for a
.See About MSDP storage servers.
The type of storage. |
Select for the type of disk storage. |
The credentials for the deduplication engine. | |
The storage paths. | |
The network interface. | |
The load balancing servers, if any. |
When you configure the storage server, the wizard also lets you create a disk pool and storage unit.
Prerequisite |
For a 96-TB , you must create the required directories before you configure the storage server. |
To configure a NetBackup storage server for a Media Server Deduplication Pool
- In the NetBackup Administration Console, select either NetBackup Management or Media and Device Management.
- In the right pane, click Configure Disk Storage Servers.
The Storage Server Configuration Wizard Welcome panel appears.
- On the Welcome panel, select Media Server Deduplication Pool from the drop-down menu.
The types of storage servers that you can configure depend on the options for which you are licensed.
The following is an example of the wizard panel:
After you select Media Server Deduplication Pool, click Next. The Add Storage Server wizard panel appears.
- On the Add Storage Server panel, select or enter the appropriate information.
The following is an example of the wizard panel:
Media server
Select the media server that you want to configure as the storage server.
You can add deduplication load balancing servers on the next wizard panel.
Username
Enter the user name for the NetBackup Deduplication Engine.
Password
Enter the password for the NetBackup Deduplication Engine.
Confirm password
To confirm the password, re-enter the password.
After you enter the information, click Next.
The Storage Server Properties panel appears.
- On the Storage Server Properties panel, enter or select the properties for the deduplication storage server.
See MSDP storage path properties.
See MSDP network interface properties.
The following is an example of the wizard panel:
After you click Next, the behavior depends on whether you have media servers installed, as follows:
- On the Deduplication Load Balancing panel, select other NetBackup media servers to use for deduplication. Selecting load balancing servers is optional.
The following is an example of the wizard panel: