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Configuring and using universal shares

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Configuring and using universal shares

This section includes the following topics:

About universal shares
Advantages of 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
About the deduplication web service user and the user group for MSDP BYO server
Configuring universal share user authentication
Mounting a universal share created from the NetBackup web UI
About universal share self-service recovery
Performing a universal share self-service recovery
Using the ingest mode
About universal shares with object store
Enabling a universal share with object store
Universal share with disabled MSDP data volumes
About the vpfs_stats utility
Disaster recovery for a universal share
Changing the number of vpfsd instances
Enabling variable-length deduplication (VLD) algorithm for universal shares
Upgrading to NetBackup 10.4
About universal share accelerator
Preparing NetBackup for the universal share accelerator
Installing the universal share accelerator
Configure a universal share accelerator
Creating a protection policy for the universal share accelerator
About the universal share accelerator quota
Recovering a point in time for the universal share accelerator
Deleting a recovered universal share accelerator
Logging for universal share accelerator
Logging and reporting for universal share VPFS instance
Vpfsd logs for file system operations in universal shares
Using the marker file interface for universal share operations

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