NetBackup™ Deduplication Guide
- Introducing the NetBackup media server deduplication option
 - Quick start
 - 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 400 TB support for MSDP
 - About MSDP Encryption using NetBackup KMS service
 - About MSDP Encryption using external KMS server
 - Configuring a storage server for a Media Server Deduplication Pool
 - About disk pools for NetBackup deduplication
 - Configuring a disk pool for deduplication
 - Creating the data directories for 400 TB MSDP support
 - Adding volumes to a 400 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 NetBackup Auto Image Replication
 - About trusted primary servers for Auto Image Replication
 - About the certificate to be used for adding a trusted master server
 - Adding a trusted master server using a NetBackup CA-signed (host ID-based) certificate
 - Adding a trusted primary server using external CA-signed certificate
 - Removing a trusted primary server
 - Enabling NetBackup clustered primary server inter-node authentication
 - Configuring NetBackup CA and NetBackup host ID-based certificate for secure communication between the source and the target MSDP storage servers
 - Configuring external CA for secure communication between the source MSDP storage server and the target MSDP storage server
 - Configuring a target for MSDP replication to a remote domain
 
 - About configuring MSDP optimized duplication and replication bandwidth
 - About performance tuning of optimized duplication and replication for MSDP cloud
 - 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 variable-length deduplication on NetBackup clients
 - 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
 - About MSDP FIPS compliance
 - Configuring the NetBackup client-side deduplication to support multiple interfaces of MSDP
 - About MSDP multi-domain support
 - About MSDP application user support
 - About MSDP mutli-domain VLAN Support
 - About NetBackup WORM storage support for immutable and indelible data
 
 - MSDP cloud support
- About MSDP cloud support
 - Create a Media Server Deduplication Pool (MSDP) storage server in the NetBackup web UI
 - Creating a cloud storage unit
 - Updating cloud credentials for a cloud LSU
 - Updating encryption configurations for a cloud LSU
 - Deleting a cloud LSU
 - Backup data to cloud by using cloud LSU
 - Duplicate data cloud by using cloud LSU
 - Configuring AIR to use cloud LSU
 - About backward compatibility support
 - About the configuration items in cloud.json, contentrouter.cfg, and spa.cfg
 - About the tool updates for cloud support
 - About the disaster recovery for cloud LSU
 - About Image Sharing using MSDP cloud
 - About restore from a backup in Microsoft Azure Archive
 - About MSDP cloud immutable (WORM) storage support
 
 - Monitoring deduplication activity
- Monitoring the MSDP deduplication and compression rates
 - Viewing MSDP job details
 - About MSDP storage capacity and usage reporting
 - About MSDP container files
 - Viewing storage usage within MSDP container files
 - Viewing MSDP disk reports
 - About monitoring MSDP processes
 - Reporting on Auto Image Replication jobs
 
 - 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 OpenStorage disk 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
 - Configuring and using universal shares
- About Universal Shares
 - Configuring and using an MSDP build-your-own (BYO) server for Universal Shares
 - MSDP build-your-own (BYO) server prerequisites and hardware requirements to configure Universal Shares
 - Configuring Universal Share user authentication
 - Mounting a Universal Share created from the NetBackup web UI
 - Creating a Protection Point for a Universal Share
 - Using the ingest mode
 - Changing the number of vpfsd instances
 - Upgrading to NetBackup 10.0
 
 - 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
 - Storage Platform Web Service (spws) does not start
 - Disk volume API or command line option does not work
 
 - Viewing MSDP disk errors and events
 - MSDP event codes and messages
 - Unable to obtain the administrator password to use an AWS EC2 instance that has a Windows OS
 - Trouble shooting multi-domain issues
 
 - Appendix A. Migrating to MSDP storage
 - Appendix B. Migrating from Cloud Catalyst to MSDP direct cloud tiering
- About migration from Cloud Catalyst to MSDP direct cloud tiering
 - About Cloud Catalyst migration strategies
 - About direct migration from Cloud Catalyst to MSDP direct cloud tiering
 - About postmigration configuration and cleanup
 - About the Cloud Catalyst migration -dryrun option
 - About Cloud Catalyst migration cacontrol options
 - Reverting back to Cloud Catalyst from a successful migration
 - Reverting back to Cloud Catalyst from a failed migration
 
 - Appendix C. Encryption Crawler
 - Index
 
About MSDP and SAN Client
SAN Client is a NetBackup optional feature that provides high speed backups and restores of NetBackup clients. Fibre Transport is the name of the NetBackup high-speed data transport method that is part of the SAN Client feature. The backup and restore traffic occurs over a SAN.
SAN clients can be used with the deduplication option; however, the deduplication must occur on the media server, not the client. Configure the media server to be both a deduplication storage server (or load balancing server) and an FT media server. The SAN client backups are then sent over the SAN to the deduplication server/FT media server host. At that media server, the backup stream is deduplicated.
Do not enable client-side deduplication on SAN Clients. The data processing for deduplication is incompatible with the high-speed transport method of Fibre Transport. Client-side deduplication relies on two-way communication over the LAN with the media server. A SAN client streams the data to the FT media server at a high rate over the SAN.