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
- 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 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 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
- 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
- About the CloudCatalyst esfs.json configuration file
- About the CloudCatalyst cache
- Controlling data traffic to the cloud when using CloudCatalyst
- Configuring push or pull optimized duplication for CloudCatalyst
- Decommissioning CloudCatalyst cloud storage
- NetBackup CloudCatalyst workflow processes
- Disaster Recovery for CloudCatalyst
- Monitoring deduplication activity
- 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
- Restarting the vxesfsd process
- Problems restarting vxesfsd
- CloudCatalyst troubleshooting tools
- Appendix A. Migrating to MSDP storage
Adding a trusted master server
You can configure a trust relationship between multiple NetBackup domains. To do so, in the source domain and the target domain you must add a trust relationship.
A trust relationship between domains helps with replication operations.
See About trusted master servers for Auto Image Replication.
See Configuring MSDP replication to a different NetBackup domain.
Perform the following steps on both the source and the target server.
Identify the NetBackup versions that are installed on the source and the target servers.
Obtain the authorization tokens of the remote server.
Use the bpnbat command to log in and nbcertcmd to get the authorization tokens.
To perform this task, see the NetBackup Commands Reference Guide.
Obtain the fingerprints for the remote server.
To obtain the SHA1 fingerprint of root certificate, use the nbcertcmd -displayCACertDetail command.
To perform this task, see the NetBackup Commands Reference Guide.
Ensure that you have one of the following permissions:
System administrator permissions with root permissions for UNIX and administrator permissions for Windows, and a NetBackupCLI user for a 3.1 NetBackup appliance.
Access to NetBackup Administrator console, where you have <username> ADMIN=ALL permissions through
auth.conf.Enhanced audit user permissions through
authalias.conf.
For more information, see the NetBackup Security and Encryption Guide.
If NBAC is enabled, ensure that both the target and the source master server have the same NBAC configuration.
If the either the source or the target server master server is on version 8.0 or earlier, ensure that the Enable insecure communication with NetBackup 8.0 and earlier hosts option on tab is selected.
To add a trusted master server
- In the NetBackup Administration Console, expand NetBackup Management > Host Properties > Master Servers in the left pane.
- In the right pane, select the master server.
- On the Actions menu, click Properties.
- In the properties dialog box left pane, select Servers.
- In the Servers dialog box, select the Trusted Master Servers tab.
- On the Trusted Master Servers tab, click Add.
The Add Trusted Master Server dialog box appears.
- In the Add Trusted Master Server dialog box, enter the fully-qualified host name of the remote master server.
- Click Validate Certificate Authority.
Depending on the NetBackup version of the target server, the next screens are displayed.
The following is an example of the dialog box:
- If the target server is on version 8.0 or earlier:
In the Add Trusted Master Server dialog box, enter the Username and Password of the remote master server host.
Skip steps 10 through 12.
The following is an example of the dialog box:
- If both the source and the target server are on version 8.1 or later:
In the Validate Certificate Authority dialog box, verify if the CA certificate fingerprint of the remote server is correct.
- To proceed, click Yes.
Or
If the fingerprints don't match, click No.
Contact the remote server admin to provide the correct fingerprints.
- In the Add Trusted Master Server dialog box, enter the trusted master server details.
Select Specify Authentication Token of the trusted master server and enter the token details of the remote master server.
Note:
To view the token you have entered, select Show Token.
Or
Select Specify credentials of the trusted master server and enter the user name and password.
To establish trust with a 3.1 NetBackup master appliance, use the NetBackupCLI credentials.
Note:
Veritas recommends using an authentication token to connect to the remote master server. An authentication token provides restricted access and allows secure communication between both the hosts. The use of user credentials (user name and password) may present a possible security breach.
The following is an example of the dialog box:
- Click OK.
- Perform the same procedure on the remote master server of the master server you have added above.
Skip this step if the target server is on version 8.0 or earlier.
Note:
You will not be able to fetch the host properties of a trusted master server from Host Properties > Client lists.