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  2. NetBackup™ Backup Planning and Performance Tuning Guide
  3. Media server configuration guidelines
  4. About NetBackup Media Server Deduplication (MSDP)
  5. MSDP tuning considerations
  6. Sample steps to change MSDP contentrouter.cfg
NetBackup™ Backup Planning and Performance Tuning Guide

Sample steps to change MSDP contentrouter.cfg

MaxCacheSize:

ssh appadmin@<msdp_instance_name>
sudo /usr/openv/pdde/pdag/bin/pdcfg --write 
/mnt/msdp/vol0/etc/puredisk/contentrouter.cfg --section
 CACHE --option MaxCacheSize --value 50%

Check the changed MaxCacheSize as below:

sudo /usr/openv/pdde/pdag/bin/pdcfg --read 
/mnt/msdp/vol0/etc/puredisk/contentrouter.cfg --section
 CACHE --option MaxCacheSize

Restart the pdde-storage process with following commands:

sudo /etc/init.d/pdde-storage force-stop
sudo /etc/init.d/pdde-storage start

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