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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Deduplication Guide
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  4. Troubleshooting MSDP operational issues
  5. MSDP client deduplication fails
Veritas NetBackup™ Deduplication Guide

MSDP client deduplication fails

NetBackup client-side agents (including client deduplication) depend on reverse host name look up of NetBackup server names. Conversely, regular backups depend on forward host name resolution. Therefore, the backup of a client that deduplicates it's own data may fail, while a normal backup of the client may succeed.

If a client-side deduplication backup fails, verify that your Domain Name Server includes all permutations of the storage server name.

Also, Veritas recommends that you use fully-qualified domain names for your NetBackup environment.

See Use fully qualified domain names.

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