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NetBackup™ Deduplication Guide

Last Published: 2024-09-29

Product(s): NetBackup & Alta Data Protection (10.5)

Introducing the NetBackup media server deduplication option
1. About the NetBackup deduplication options
Quick start
1. About client-side deduplication
2. About the media server deduplication (MSDP) node cloud tier
  1. Configuring the MSDP node cloud tier
3. About Auto Image Replication (A.I.R.)
Planning your deployment
1. Planning your MSDP deployment
2. NetBackup naming conventions
3. About MSDP deduplication nodes
4. About the NetBackup deduplication destination
5. About MSDP capacity support and hardware requirements
6. About MSDP storage and connectivity requirements
  1. Fibre Channel and iSCSI comparison for MSDP
7. About NetBackup media server deduplication
8. About NetBackup Client Direct deduplication
  1. About MSDP client deduplication requirements and limitations
9. About MSDP remote office client deduplication
  1. About MSDP remote client data security
  2. About remote client backup scheduling
10. About the NetBackup Deduplication Engine credentials
11. About the network interface for MSDP
12. About MSDP port usage
13. About MSDP optimized synthetic backups
14. About MSDP and SAN Client
15. About MSDP optimized duplication and replication
16. About MSDP performance
  1. How file size may affect the MSDP deduplication rate
17. About MSDP stream handlers
  1. Oracle stream handler
  2. Microsoft SQL Server stream handler
18. MSDP deployment best practices
Provisioning the storage
1. About provisioning the storage for MSDP
2. Do not modify MSDP storage directories and files
3. About volume management for NetBackup MSDP
Licensing deduplication
1. About the MSDP license
2. Licensing NetBackup MSDP
Configuring deduplication
1. Configuring MSDP server-side deduplication
2. Configuring MSDP client-side deduplication
3. About the MSDP Deduplication Multi-Threaded Agent
  1. Configuring the Deduplication Multi-Threaded Agent behavior
  2. MSDP mtstrm.conf file parameters
  3. Configuring deduplication plug-in interaction with the Multi-Threaded Agent
4. About MSDP fingerprinting
  1. About the MSDP fingerprint cache
  2. Configuring the MSDP fingerprint cache behavior
  3. MSDP fingerprint cache behavior options
  4. About seeding the MSDP fingerprint cache for remote client deduplication
  5. Configuring MSDP fingerprint cache seeding on the client
  6. Configuring MSDP fingerprint cache seeding on the storage server
  7. NetBackup seedutil options
  8. About sampling and predictive cache
  9. Rebuilding the sampling cache
5. Enabling 400 TB support for MSDP
  1. Creating the data directories for 400 TB MSDP support
  2. Adding volumes to a 400 TB Media Server Deduplication Pool
6. About MSDP Encryption using NetBackup Key Management Server service
  1. Enabling KMS encryption for a local LSU
  2. Upgrading KMS for MSDP
7. About MSDP Encryption using external KMS server
8. Configuring a storage server for a Media Server Deduplication Pool
  1. MSDP storage path properties
  2. MSDP network interface properties
9. About disk pools for NetBackup deduplication
  1. Configuring a disk pool for deduplication
  2. Media Server Deduplication Pool properties
10. Configuring a Media Server Deduplication Pool storage unit
  1. Media Server Deduplication Pool storage unit properties
  2. MSDP storage unit recommendations
11. Configuring client attributes for MSDP client-side deduplication
  1. Disabling MSDP client-side deduplication for a client
  2. Disable client-side deduplication for all clients in a policy
12. About MSDP compression
13. About MSDP encryption
  1. Configuring encryption for MSDP local storage volume
  2. Configuring encryption for MSDP cloud storage volumes
  3. Configuring MSDP encryption on different platforms
  4. Modes of rolling data conversion
  5. MSDP encryption behavior and compatibilities
14. Configuring optimized synthetic backups for MSDP
15. About a separate network path for MSDP duplication and replication
  1. Configuring a separate network path for MSDP duplication and replication
16. About MSDP optimized duplication within the same domain
  1. About the media servers for MSDP optimized duplication within the same domain
  2. About MSDP push duplication within the same domain
  3. About MSDP pull duplication within the same domain
  4. Configuring MSDP optimized duplication within the same NetBackup domain
  5. Configuring NetBackup optimized duplication or replication behavior
  6. Setting NetBackup configuration options by using the command line
17. About MSDP replication to a different domain
18. Configuring MSDP replication to a different NetBackup domain
  1. About NetBackup Auto Image Replication
  2. About trusted primary servers for Auto Image Replication
  3. About the certificate to use to add a trusted primary server
  4. Add a trusted primary server
  5. Remove a trusted primary server
  6. Enable inter-node authentication for a NetBackup clustered primary server
  7. Configuring NetBackup CA and NetBackup host ID-based certificate for secure communication between the source and the target MSDP storage servers
  8. Configuring external CA for secure communication between the source MSDP storage server and the target MSDP storage server
  9. Configuring a target for MSDP replication to a remote domain
    1. Target options for MSDP replication
    2. Configuring a NetBackup Deduplication Engine user with limited permissions for Auto Image Replication
19. About configuring MSDP optimized duplication and replication bandwidth
20. About performance tuning of optimized duplication and replication for MSDP cloud
21. About storage lifecycle policies
  1. About the storage lifecycle policies required for Auto Image Replication
  2. Creating a storage lifecycle policy
  3. Storage Lifecycle Policy dialog box settings
22. About MSDP backup policy configuration
23. Creating a backup policy
24. Resilient network properties
  1. Resilient connection resource usage
  2. Specify resilient connections for clients
25. Adding an MSDP load balancing server
26. About variable-length deduplication on NetBackup clients
  1. Managing the variable-length deduplication using the cacontrol command-line utility
27. About the MSDP pd.conf configuration file
  1. Editing the MSDP pd.conf file
  2. MSDP pd.conf file parameters
28. About the MSDP contentrouter.cfg file
29. About saving the MSDP storage server configuration
  1. Saving the MSDP storage server configuration
  2. Editing an MSDP storage server configuration file
30. Setting the MSDP storage server configuration
31. About the MSDP host configuration file
32. Deleting an MSDP host configuration file
33. Resetting the MSDP registry
34. About protecting the MSDP catalog
  1. About the MSDP shadow catalog
  2. About the MSDP catalog backup policy
  3. Changing the MSDP shadow catalog path
  4. Changing the MSDP shadow catalog schedule
  5. Changing the number of MSDP catalog shadow copies
  6. Configuring an MSDP catalog backup
  7. MSDP drcontrol options
  8. Updating an MSDP catalog backup policy
35. About MSDP FIPS compliance
36. Configuring the NetBackup client-side deduplication to support multiple interfaces of MSDP
37. About MSDP multi-domain support
38. About MSDP application user support
39. About MSDP mutli-domain VLAN Support
40. About NetBackup WORM storage support for immutable and indelible data
  1. About the NetBackup command line options to configure immutable and indelible data
41. Running MSDP services with the non-root user
  1. Changing the service user after installation or upgrade
42. Running MSDP commands with the non-root user
MSDP volume group (MVG)
1. About the MSDP volume group
  1. The MSDP volume group components
2. Configuring the MSDP volume group
3. MSDP volume group disaster recovery
4. The MSDP server maintenance
5. Limitations of the MSDP volume group
6. About the node failure management
7. MSDP volume group best practices
8. MSDP commands for MVG maintenance
9. Troubleshooting the MVG errors
MSDP cloud support
1. About MSDP cloud support
  1. Operating system requirement for configuration
  2. Limitations
2. Create a Media Server Deduplication Pool storage server in the NetBackup web UI
3. Managing credentials for MSDP-C
4. Creating a cloud storage unit
5. Updating cloud credentials for a cloud LSU
6. Updating encryption configurations for a cloud LSU
7. Deleting a cloud LSU
8. Backup data to cloud by using cloud LSU
9. Duplicate data cloud by using cloud LSU
10. Configuring AIR to use cloud LSU
11. About backward compatibility support
12. About the configuration items in cloud.json, contentrouter.cfg, and spa.cfg
13. Cloud space reclamation
  1. Configuring the container aging
  2. Configuring the cloud compaction
14. About the tool updates for cloud support
15. About the disaster recovery for cloud LSU
  1. Common disaster recovery steps
  2. Disaster recovery for cloud LSU in Flex Scale
  3. Additional steps for Veritas Alta Recovery Vault Azure disaster recovery
16. About Image Sharing using MSDP cloud
  1. Things to consider before you use image sharing to convert VM image to VHD in Azure
  2. Converting the VM image to VHD in Azure
17. About restore from a backup in Microsoft Azure Archive
18. About Veritas Alta Recovery Vault Azure and Amazon
19. Configuring Veritas Alta Recovery Vault Azure and Azure Government
20. Configuring Veritas Alta Recovery Vault Azure and Azure Government using the CLI
21. Configuring Veritas Alta Recovery Vault Amazon and Amazon Government
22. Configuring Veritas Alta Recovery Vault Amazon and Amazon Government using the CLI
23. Migrating from standard authentication to token-based authentication for Recovery Vault
24. About MSDP cloud immutable (WORM) storage support
  1. Creating a cloud immutable storage unit using the web UI
  2. Updating a cloud immutable volume
  3. About immutable object support for AWS S3
  4. About immutable object support for AWS S3 compatible platforms
  5. About immutable storage support for Azure blob storage
  6. About bucket-level immutable storage support for Google Cloud Storage
    1. Creating a Google cloud immutable storage using the Web UI
    2. Managing a Google cloud immutable storage using msdpcldutil tool
  7. About object-level immutable storage support for Google Cloud Storage
    1. Google cloud storage user permissions to create the cloud immutable volume
  8. About using the cloud immutable storage in a cluster environment
  9. Troubleshooting the errors when disk volume creation using web UI fails
  10. Deleting the immutable image with the enterprise mode
  11. Deleting the S3 object permanently
  12. About MSDP cloud admin tool
25. About AWS IAM Role Anywhere support
  1. Prerequisites for AWS IAM Role Anywhere configuration
  2. Configure IAM Role Anywhere in AWS
26. About Azure service principal support
  1. Prerequisites for Azure service principal configuration
  2. Configure Azure service principal
    1. Create a new custom role
    2. Create a new service principal
  3. Configure a disk pool using Azure service principal
27. About instant access for object storage
28. About NetBackup support for AWS Snowball Edge
  1. Interfacing with the device
  2. Using Credentials
  3. Configuring NetBackup for AWS Snowball Edge
    1. Configuring SSL for AWS Snowball Edge
    2. Configuring NetBackup for AWS Snowball Edge with SSL Enabled
  4. Shipping the device
  5. Reconfigure NetBackup to work with S3
    1. Bucket is in a default AWS Region
    2. Bucket is in a non-default AWS Region (or storage already exists in the AWS region)
  6. Configuring NetBackup for AWS Snowball Edge using CLI
  7. Using AWS Snowball Edge for large backup restore
  8. Limitations when AWS Snowball Edge is used
29. Upgrading to NetBackup 10.3 and cluster environment
30. About the cloud direct
  1. Configuring the cloud direct for backup
  2. Configuring the cloud direct for restore
S3 Interface for MSDP
1. About S3 interface for MSDP
2. Prerequisites for MSDP build-your-own (BYO) server
3. Configuring S3 interface for MSDP on MSDP build-your-own (BYO) server
  1. Changing the certificate in S3 server
  2. Changing the ETAG type of the S3 objects
4. Identity and Access Management (IAM) for S3 interface for MSDP
5. S3 Object Lock In Flex WORM
6. S3 APIs for S3 interface for MSDP
7. Creating a protection policy for the MSDP object store
8. Recovering the MSDP object store data from the backup images
9. Disaster recovery in S3 interface for MSDP
  1. Recovering the MSDP S3 IAM configurations from cloud LSU
10. Limitations in S3 interface for MSDP
11. Logging and troubleshooting
12. Best practices
Monitoring deduplication activity
1. Monitoring the MSDP deduplication and compression rates
2. Viewing MSDP job details
  1. MSDP job details
3. About MSDP storage capacity and usage reporting
4. About MSDP container files
5. Viewing storage usage within MSDP container files
6. About monitoring MSDP processes
7. Reporting on Auto Image Replication jobs
8. Checking the image encryption status
Managing deduplication
1. Managing MSDP servers
2. Managing NetBackup Deduplication Engine credentials
3. Managing Media Server Deduplication Pools
4. Analyzing the disc space consumption of the backup images
5. Deleting backup images
6. About MSDP queue processing
7. Processing the MSDP transaction queue manually
8. About MSDP data integrity checking
9. Configuring MSDP data integrity checking behavior
  1. MSDP data integrity checking configuration parameters
10. About managing MSDP storage read performance
11. About MSDP storage rebasing
  1. MSDP server-side rebasing parameters
12. About the MSDP data removal process
13. Resizing the MSDP storage partition
14. How MSDP restores work
15. Configuring MSDP restores directly to a client
16. About restoring files at a remote site
17. About restoring from a backup at a target primary domain
18. Specifying the restore server
19. Enabling extra OS STIG hardening on WORM storage server instance
Recovering MSDP
1. About recovering the MSDP catalog
2. Restoring the MSDP catalog from a shadow copy
3. Recovering from an MSDP storage server disk failure
4. Recovering from an MSDP storage server failure
5. Recovering the MSDP storage server after NetBackup catalog recovery
Replacing MSDP hosts
1. Replacing the MSDP storage server host computer
Uninstalling MSDP
1. About uninstalling MSDP
2. Deactivating MSDP
Deduplication architecture
1. MSDP server components
2. Media server deduplication backup process
3. MSDP client components
4. MSDP client - side deduplication backup process
Configuring and managing universal shares
1. Introduction to universal shares
2. Prerequisites to configure universal shares
  1. Build-your-own (BYO) server prerequisites and hardware requirements to configure universal shares
    1. Managing the deduplication web service user and the user group for MSDP BYO server
  2. Configuring universal share user authentication
3. Managing universal shares
4. Mounting a universal share
5. Creating a protection point for a universal share
6. Restoring data using universal shares
7. Advanced features of universal shares
8. Managing universal share services
9. Troubleshooting issues related to universal shares
Configuring isolated recovery environment (IRE)
1. Requirements
2. Configuring the network isolation
3. Configuring an isolated recovery environment using the web UI
4. Configuring an isolated recovery environment using the command line
5. Replicating the backup images from the IRE domain to the production domain
Using the NetBackup Deduplication Shell
1. About the NetBackup Deduplication Shell
2. Managing users from the deduplication shell
3. Managing VLAN interfaces from the deduplication shell
4. Managing the retention policy on a WORM storage server
5. Managing images with a retention lock on a WORM storage server
6. Auditing WORM retention changes
7. Protecting the NetBackup catalog from the deduplication shell
8. About the external MSDP catalog backup
9. Managing certificates from the deduplication shell
10. Managing FIPS mode from the deduplication shell
11. Encrypting backups from the deduplication shell
12. Tuning the MSDP configuration from the deduplication shell
13. Setting the MSDP log level from the deduplication shell
14. Managing NetBackup services from the deduplication shell
15. Monitoring and troubleshooting NetBackup services from the deduplication shell
16. Managing S3 service from the deduplication shell
17. Multi-person authorization for deduplication shell commands
18. Managing cloud LSU in Flex Scale and Cloud Scale
Troubleshooting
1. About unified logging
  1. About using the vxlogview command to view unified logs
  2. Examples of using vxlogview to view unified logs
2. About legacy logging
  1. Creating NetBackup log file directories for MSDP
3. NetBackup MSDP log files
4. Troubleshooting MSDP configuration issues
5. Troubleshooting MSDP operational issues
6. Viewing MSDP disk errors and events
7. MSDP event codes and messages
8. Unable to obtain the administrator password to use an AWS EC2 instance that has a Windows OS
9. Trouble shooting multi-domain issues
10. Troubleshooting the cloud compaction error messages
Appendix A. Migrating to MSDP storage
1. Migrating from another storage type to MSDP
Appendix B. Migrating from Cloud Catalyst to MSDP direct cloud tiering
1. About migration from Cloud Catalyst to MSDP direct cloud tiering
2. About Cloud Catalyst migration strategies
3. About direct migration from Cloud Catalyst to MSDP direct cloud tiering
4. About postmigration configuration and cleanup
5. About the Cloud Catalyst migration -dryrun option
6. About Cloud Catalyst migration cacontrol options
7. Reverting back to Cloud Catalyst from a successful migration
8. Reverting back to Cloud Catalyst from a failed migration
Appendix C. Encryption Crawler
1. About the Encryption Crawler
2. About the two modes of the Encryption Crawler
3. Managing the Encryption Crawler
4. Advanced options
5. Tuning options
6. Encrypting the data
7. Command usage example outputs
8. Updating the KMS configuration
Index

MSDP volume group best practices

The following are some of the best practices with the MSDP volume group.

Put an MVG server close to the regular MSDP servers of which the physical volumes are grouped by the MVG server.
The MVG server and the load balance media servers of the MVG server can reach the MSDP servers efficiently with low latency and good throughput.
Add the media servers of the regular MSDP servers to the load balance media server list of the MVG server. Consider adding more media servers to the list if there are.
Put an MVG server in a reliable place, which is desired to have physical isolation with the regular MSDP servers.
As an example, the MVG server can be configured on the NetBackup primary server if it is the only MVG server, or on HA-enabled Flex appliance or BYO environment.
The physical volumes in one MVG volume have the similar configuration.
They have similar volume size, similar server CPU/memory, similar disk/network performance. It makes a more balanced load between the physical volumes and MSDP servers.
They are enforced to have the same encryption, KMS, WORM, and other security configuration. The MVG volume creation fails if the settings do not match.
Add a new MVG server only when needed to reduce cost and not compromise on the performance.
Add a new MVG server only when the existing ones cannot meet the requirements. For example, physical isolation between the MVG servers and the MVG volumes is needed. The existing MVG server too small to manage many MVG volumes. The MVG server has too many MVG volumes.
Do not use multiple MVG servers to manage the physical volumes of the same MSDP servers.
Do not have a physical volume assigned to multiple MVG volumes, does not matter if the MVG volumes are managed by the same or different MVG servers.
If an MSDP server has multiple volumes, they can be assigned to different MVG volumes of different MVG servers. However, it is not recommended.
Once a physical volume is assigned to an MVG volume, it's not recommended to use it anymore for NetBackup jobs.
It does not block anything if the physical volume continues being used. You can still use it to restore the pre-existing backup images. The currently working configuration with the physical volume can continue working. To have a more balanced load, remove it from the configuration of the backup policy when it is assigned to an MVG volume.
Deactivate the media server on an MVG server if it is small.
If the MVG server is small, deactivate the media server on the MVG server from NetBackup scheduling jobs on it when there are additional load-balancing media servers for the MVG server. Do not deactivate it if it is the only load-balancing media server of the MVG server.
You can go to NetBackup web UI Storage > Media server, select the MVG server, then click Deactivate.
You can also run the following NetBackup command:
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/nbemmcmd -updatehost -machinename <mvg-server> -machinestateop set_admin_pause -machinetype media -masterserver <primary-server>