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  2. NetBackup™ Deduplication Guide
  3. MSDP cloud support
  4. About MSDP cloud immutable (WORM) storage support
  5. About immutable object support for AWS S3
  6. Performance tuning
NetBackup™ Deduplication Guide

Performance tuning

MSDP spad process has a retention cache. It saves the data container's retention time. When data container's retention time is less than retentionCacheTimeThreshold, it does not deduplicate again to quick reclaim the storage. If it has dedupe, the retention time can be extended and cannot be deleted.

The config items are in cloudlsu.cfg,

Parameter

Descripiton

Default value

retentionCacheSizeThreshold

Maximum number of data container's retention information is saved in the retention cache.

Minimum number saves the memory.

10000000

retentionCacheTimeThreshold

When data container retention time is less than this threshold, it does not dedupe again.

432000

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