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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Deduplication Guide
  3. Configuring deduplication
  4. Editing an MSDP storage server configuration file
Veritas NetBackup™ Deduplication Guide

Editing an MSDP storage server configuration file

To use a storage server configuration file for recovery, it must contain only the required information. You must remove any point - in - time status information. (Status information is only in a configuration file that was saved on an active storage server.) You also must add several configuration settings that are not included in a saved configuration file or a template configuration file.

Table: Required lines for a recovery file shows the configuration lines that are required.

Table: Required lines for a recovery file

Configuration setting

Description

V7.0 "storagepath" " " string

The value should be the same as the value that was used when you configured the storage server.

V7.0 "spalogpath" " " string

For the spalogpath, use the storagepath value and append log to the path. For example, if the storagepath is D:\DedupeStorage, enter D:\DedupeStorage\log.

V7.0 "dbpath" " " string

If the database path is the same as the storagepath value, enter the same value for dbpath. Otherwise, enter the path to the database.

V7.0 "required_interface" " " string

A value for required_interface is required only if you configured one initially; if a specific interface is not required, leave it blank. In a saved configuration file, the required interface defaults to the computer's hostname.

V7.0 "spalogretention" "7" int

Do not change this value.

V7.0 "verboselevel" "3" int

Do not change this value.

V7.0 "replication_target(s)" "none" string

A value for replication_target(s) is required only if you configured optimized duplication. Otherwise, do not edit this line.

V7.0 "spalogin" "username" string

Replace username with the NetBackup Deduplication Engine user ID.

V7.0 "spapasswd" "password" string

Replace password with the password for the NetBackup Deduplication Engine user ID.

V7.0 "encryption" " " int

The value should be the same as the value that was used when you configured the storage server.

V7.0 "kmsenabled" " " int

The value is used to enable or disable MSDP KMS configuration. The value should be the same as the value that was used when you configured the storage server.

V7.0 "kmsservertype" " " int

The value is KMS server type. This value should be 0.

V7.0 "kmsservername" " " string

The value is NBU Key Management Server. The value should be the same as the value that was used when you configured the storage server.

V7.0 "keygroupname" " " string

The value should be the same as the value that was used when you configured the storage server.

To edit the storage server configuration

  1. If you did not save a storage server configuration file, get a storage server configuration file.

    See Saving the MSDP storage server configuration.

  2. Use a text editor to enter, change, or remove values.

    Remove lines from and add lines to your file until only the required lines (see Table: Required lines for a recovery file) are in the configuration file. Enter or change the values between the second set of quotation marks in each line. A template configuration file has a space character (" ") between the second set of quotation marks.

More Information

About saving the MSDP storage server configuration

Recovering from an MSDP storage server disk failure

Recovering from an MSDP storage server failure

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