About the NetBackup deduplication options
Cohesity NetBackup provides the deduplication options that let you deduplicate data everywhere, as close to the source of data as you require.
Deduplication everywhere provides the following benefits:
Deduplication everywhere lets you choose at which point in the backup process to perform deduplication. NetBackup can manage your deduplication wherever you implement it in the backup stream.
Table: NetBackup deduplication options describes the options for deduplication.
Table: NetBackup deduplication options
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Media server deduplication
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NetBackup clients send their backups to a NetBackup media server, which deduplicates the backup data. A NetBackup media server hosts the NetBackup Deduplication Engine, which writes the data to a on the target storage and manages the deduplicated data
See About NetBackup media server deduplication.
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Client deduplication
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With NetBackup MSDP client deduplication, clients deduplicate their backup data and then send it directly to the storage server, which writes it to the storage. The network traffic is reduced greatly.
See About NetBackup Client Direct deduplication.
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NetBackup appliance deduplication
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Cohesity provides several hardware and a software solutions that include NetBackup deduplication.
The NetBackup appliances have their own documentation set:
https://sort.veritas.com/documents
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