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
Configuring a storage server for a PureDisk Deduplication Pool
Note:
NetBackup supports
storage on NetBackup 5000 series appliances only.Configure in this context means to configure a PureDisk Storage Pool Authority as a storage server in NetBackup.
See About the NetBackup deduplication destinations.
When you configure a storage server for MSDP, you specify the following:
The type of storage.
Select
for the type of disk storage.The credentials for the PureDisk Storage Pool Authority.
A media server to use as a backup server and deduplication server. Also, other media servers to use as load balancing servers, if any.
When you configure the storage server, the wizard also lets you configure a disk pool and storage unit also.
To configure a NetBackup storage server for a PureDisk Deduplication Pool by using the wizard
- 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 a media server to use to query the NetBackup 5000 series appliance for its capabilities. That media server also is used for deduplication.
You can add other deduplication load balancing servers on the next wizard panel.
Storage server name
Enter the host name of the NetBackup 5000 series appliance in the Storage server name field.
Username
Enter the user name for the NetBackup 5000 series appliance.
Password
Enter the password for the NetBackup 5000 series appliance.
Confirm password
To confirm the password, re-enter the password.
After you enter the information, click Next.
The Configure Additional Media Servers panel appears.
- On the Deduplication Load Balancing panel select other NetBackup media servers to use for deduplication load balancing. The wizard populates the media servers that you select with the Storage Pool Authority credentials you entered on a previous panel. Selecting load balancing servers is optional.
The following is an example of the wizard panel:
When you click Next, the Storage Server Configuration Summary panel appears next.
- On the Storage Server Configuration Summary panel, verify the selections. If OK, click Next.
The Storage Server Creation Status panel appears. It describes the status of the wizard actions.
- The Storage Server Configuration Status wizard panel describes the status of the operation, as follows: