About provisioning the storage for MSDP
NetBackup requires that the storage is exposed as a directory path.
Provision the storage as follows:
Up to 64 TBs | |
96 TBs | See 96-TBs of storage. |
How many storage instances you provision depends on your storage requirements for your backups. If your requirements are greater than one deduplication node can accommodate, you can configure more than one node.
See About MSDP deduplication nodes.
Optimized duplication and replication also can affect the number of nodes you provison.
See About MSDP optimized duplication and replication.
Other NetBackup requirements may affect how you provision the storage.
See About MSDP storage and connectivity requirements.
How to provision the storage is beyond the scope of the NetBackup documentation. Consult the storage vendor's documentation.
See About the NetBackup deduplication destinations.
See Planning your MSDP deployment.
Provision the backup storage so that it appears as a single mount point to the operating system.
Because the storage requires a directory path, do not use only the root node (/) or drive letter (E:\) as the storage path. (That is, do not mount the storage as a root node (/) or a drive letter (E:\).
If you use a separate disk volume for the deduplication database, provision a 1-TB volume on a different mount point than the backup data storage.
NetBackup supports 96 TBs of storage in a single on certain operating systems.
Support requires four separate volumes on the storage server host.
Before you configure the MSDP storage server, you must provision the volumes as described in Table: Volumes for 96-TB Media Server Deduplication Pool support. Each volume must conform to the following items:
Formatted with a file system that NetBackup supports for MSDP. The same file system must be used for all volumes.
Reside on a separate disk from the other volumes that you allocate for the MSDP storage.
Mounted on a separate mount point on the computer that you want to use as the MSDP storage server
Veritas recommends that you use a descriptive naming convention for the mount point names.
Table: Volumes for 96-TB Media Server Deduplication Pool support
Size | Description | Suggested mount point |
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1 TB | The volume for the MSDP catalog (the deduplication database). |
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32 TBs | The first volume for the MSDP storage. This volume contains backup data, configuration files, and log files. |
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32 TBs | The second volume for the MSDP storage. This volume contains backup data. |
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32 TBs | The third volume for the MSDP storage. This volume contains backup data. |
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