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
About MSDP client deduplication requirements and limitations
The clients that deduplicate their own data and the master server must use the same name to resolve the storage server. The name must be the host name under which the NetBackup Deduplication Engine credentials were created. If they do not use the same name, backups fail. In some environments, careful configuration may be required to ensure that the client and the master server use the same name for the storage server. Such environments include those that use VLAN tagging and those that use multi-homed hosts.
NetBackup does not support the following for client-side deduplication:
Multiple copies per job. For the jobs that specify multiple copies, the backup images are sent to the storage server and may be deduplicated there. Multiple copies are configured in a NetBackup backup policy.
NDMP hosts. The backup jobs fail if you try to use client-side deduplication for NDMP hosts.
For the systems on which NetBackup supports client-side deduplication, see the NetBackup compatibility lists at the following URL:
http://www.netbackup.com/compatibility
The clients that deduplicate their own data conform to the standard NetBackup release level compatibility. The NetBackup Release Notes for each release defines the compatibility between NetBackup releases. To take advantage of any new features, improvements, and fixes, Veritas recommends that the clients and the servers be at the same release and revision.
The NetBackup Release Notes is available through the following URL: