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  2. NetBackup™ Deduplication Guide
  3. S3 Interface for MSDP
  4. Limitations in S3 interface for MSDP
NetBackup™ Deduplication Guide

Limitations in S3 interface for MSDP

S3 interface for MSDP has the following limitations:

  • 1000 buckets in one S3 server.

  • Recommend 50~100 concurrent requests based on BYO computer performance.

  • Small file must be less than 1M. A tar compress file of small files must be less than 5G. The number of small files in small files tar compress file should be less than 10000.

  • One object size must be less than 5TB.

  • Multipart upload limitation. See Amazon S3 multipart upload limits

    Does not support Flex, Flex worm, FlexScale, and MSDP Scaleout.

  • Does not support Amazon S3 Glacier, Deep Archive, and Microsoft Azure Archive.

  • When you configure S3 server, the client's name in OST plug-in should avoid #s3storage.

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