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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Deduplication Guide
  3. Configuring deduplication
  4. About a separate network path for MSDP duplication and replication
Veritas NetBackup™ Deduplication Guide

About a separate network path for MSDP duplication and replication

You can use a different network for MSDP duplication and replication traffic rather than the one you use for MSDP backups. Both the duplication and the replication data traffic and the control traffic travel over the separate network. Your MSDP traffic uses two different networks, as follows:

Backups and restores

For backups and restores, NetBackup uses the network interface that was configured during the storage server configuration.

Both the backup and restore traffic and the control traffic travel over the backup network.

See About the network interface for MSDP.

Duplication and replication

For the duplication and the replication traffic, configure your host operating systems to use a different network than the one you use for backups and restores.

Both the duplication and the replication data traffic and the control traffic travel over the duplication and replication network.

See Configuring a separate network path for MSDP duplication and replication.

When you configure the optimized duplication or replication target, ensure that you select the host name that represents the duplication and replication network.

More Information

About MSDP optimized duplication within the same domain

About MSDP replication to a different domain

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