Veritas Access Appliance 8.0 Solutions Guide for NetBackup
- Access Appliance integration with NetBackup
- System requirements
- Configuring Veritas Data Deduplication with Access Appliance
- Configuring Veritas Data Deduplication without WORM
- Configuring Veritas Data Deduplication with WORM
- Managing Veritas Data Deduplication using GUI
- Accessing Access Appliance WORM storage shell for management tasks
- Support for NetBackup Auto Image Replication
- Configuring MSDP-C with Access Appliance
- Migrating the NetBackup images from existing storage to Veritas Access storage
- Configuring Access Appliance with the NetBackup client
- Troubleshooting
Configuring Veritas Data Deduplication using the Access CLISH
This section describes how you can configure Veritas Data Deduplication without WORM using the Access Appliance command-line interface.
You can use the dedupe> config command to configure the deduplication storage server using the given set of filesystems and IP address.
Prerequisites:
The filesystem should be striped and should be already created with size not exceeding 100 TiB and the IP should be online before you start configuring Veritas Data Deduplication.
If the total deduplication pool size required is larger than 100 TiB, then create multiple data filesystems.
The total data filesystem size should not exceed 1.2 PiB.
The data filesystems are used to store the deduplicated data and its metadata.
You are required to create a separate catalog file system to store the Veritas Data Deduplication catalog. The minimum size of the catalog file system should be 5 TiB.
The deduplication storage server uses the specified IP address to receive the backup data from NetBackup.
To configure the deduplication storage server
- To configure the first deduplication storage server, enter the following:
dedupe> config filesystem1[,filesystem2,...] IP username [catfs_name] [worm=no] [minret] [maxret]
Where:
filesystem1, filesystem2,...
Specifies the data filesystem names.
IP
Specifies the interface IP. You can check for the IP using the network IP address show command.
username
Specifies the username.
catfs_name
Specifies the catalog filesystem of the deduplication server.
worm
Enables WORM. The possible values are enable_worm=yes/enable_worm=no. This is an optional parameter.
minret
Specifies the minimum image retention period. This is an optional parameter.
maxret
Specifies the maximum image retention period. This is an optional parameter.
You are prompted to enter your password. After you specify your password, Veritas Data Deduplication is configured.
Note:
Make a note of the password that you use. You have to use the same password when you configure the storage server on NetBackup and also when you reconfigure Veritas Data Deduplication.
Note:
Configuring Veritas Data Deduplication requires an FQDN entry which resolves to a specific IP. You can either have a DNS entry or you can add an entry in the /etc/hosts
file of both the NetBackup media and primary servers.on all the nodes to resolve the FQDN to a specific IP.
Note:
If you want to configure deduplication with an IPv6 IP, you are required to have an FQDN entry which resolves to the specific IP. The FQDN should be resolvable on both Access Appliance and NetBackup. You can either have a DNS entry or you can add an entry in the /etc/hosts
file of the NetBackup servers on all the nodes to resolve the FQDN to a specific IP.
Note:
If you have to reconfigure deduplication, you have to pass all the filesystems in the same order that is displayed in the output of the dedupe show command before deduplication was unconfigured.
You must use the same username and password that you used when you initially configured deduplication.
If a new IP is used for the deduplication server during reconfiguration, the new IP should map to the old FQDN. You can either have a DNS entry or add an entry in the /etc/hosts
file on all the nodes to resolve the FQDN to a specific IP.