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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Deduplication Guide
  3. Configuring deduplication
  4. About MSDP replication to a different domain
Veritas NetBackup™ Deduplication Guide

About MSDP replication to a different domain

NetBackup supports replication to storage in a different domain. NetBackup Auto Image Replication is the method used to replicate backup images. (Backup image replication is not the same as snapshot replication, which may occur in the same domain.) You can replicate from one source to one or more destinations.

Table: NetBackup media server deduplication replication targets describes the MSDP replication source and targets that NetBackup supports.

Table: NetBackup media server deduplication replication targets

Source storage

Target storage

Media Server Deduplication Pool

A Media Server Deduplication Pool, which can be hosted on the following systems:

  • A NetBackup media server.

  • A NetBackup 5200 series appliance or NetBackup 5300 series appliance.

  • A CloudCatalyst storage server.

PureDisk Deduplication Pool

A PureDisk Deduplication Pool on a NetBackup 5000 series appliance. A PureDisk Deduplication Pool is a PureDisk Storage Pool exposed to NetBackup by the NetBackup 5000 series appliance .

A PureDisk Deduplication Pool can be the destination of replication from one NetBackup domain only. If you try to replicate from MSDP storage in more than one NetBackup domain, replication does not function correctly.

Note:

NetBackup supports PureDisk Deduplication Pool storage on NetBackup 5000 series appliances only.

CloudCatalyst Storage Server

  • A disk pool for CloudCatalyst storage server.

  • A Media Server Deduplication Pool

Auto Image Replication does not support replicating from a storage unit group. That is, the source copy cannot be in a storage unit group.

If a replication job fails, NetBackup retries the replication until it succeeds or the source images expire. You can change the retry interval behavior.

See Configuring NetBackup optimized duplication or replication behavior.

If a job fails after it replicates some of the images, NetBackup does not run a separate image cleanup job for the partially replicated images. The next time the replication runs, that job cleans up the image fragments before it begins to replicate the images.

You can use a separate network for the duplication traffic.

More Information

About a separate network path for MSDP duplication and replication

Configuring MSDP replication to a different NetBackup domain

About MSDP optimized duplication and replication

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