About the NetBackup Deduplication Shell
You can use the NetBackup Deduplication Shell to manage the settings for WORM and MSDP storage servers on the following products:
Flex Appliance: Supported for WORM
Access Appliance: Supported for WORM
NetBackup Flex Scale: Supported for WORM and regular MSDP
NetBackup on Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS): Supported for regular MSDP
NetBackup on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS): Supported for regular MSDP
The interface provides tab-completed command options.
These are the main categories of commands:
dedupe
This command lets you manage the deduplication service.
retention
This command lets you manage image retention. This command is only available for WORM storage servers.
setting
This command lets you manage the deduplication and the system configuration settings.
support
This command lets you access and upload the relevant logs and configuration files for troubleshooting.
To access the deduplication shell, open an SSH session to the storage server. When you log in for the first time, use the following credentials:
NetBackup Flex Scale: An appliance user with the appliance administrator role
All other products:
Username: msdpadm
Password: P@ssw0rd
You are required to change your password the first time you log in.