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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Deduplication Guide
  3. Configuring deduplication
Veritas NetBackup™ Deduplication Guide

Configuring deduplication

This section includes the following topics:
  • Configuring MSDP server-side deduplication

  • Configuring MSDP client-side deduplication

  • About the MSDP Deduplication Multi-Threaded Agent

  • Configuring the Deduplication Multi-Threaded Agent behavior

  • Configuring deduplication plug-in interaction with the Multi-Threaded Agent

  • About MSDP fingerprinting

  • About the MSDP fingerprint cache

  • Configuring the MSDP fingerprint cache behavior

  • About seeding the MSDP fingerprint cache for remote client deduplication

  • Configuring MSDP fingerprint cache seeding on the client

  • Configuring MSDP fingerprint cache seeding on the storage server

  • Enabling 250-TB support for MSDP

  • About MSDP Encryption using NetBackup KMS service

  • About MSDP Encryption using external KMS server

  • Configuring a storage server for a Media Server Deduplication Pool

  • Configuring a storage server for a PureDisk Deduplication Pool

  • About disk pools for NetBackup deduplication

  • Configuring a disk pool for deduplication

  • Creating the data directories for 250-TB MSDP support

  • Adding volumes to a 250-TB Media Server Deduplication Pool

  • Configuring a Media Server Deduplication Pool storage unit

  • Configuring client attributes for MSDP client-side deduplication

  • Disabling MSDP client-side deduplication for a client

  • About MSDP compression

  • About MSDP encryption

  • MSDP compression and encryption settings matrix

  • Configuring encryption for MSDP backups

  • Configuring encryption for MSDP optimized duplication and replication

  • About the rolling data conversion mechanism for MSDP

  • Modes of rolling data conversion

  • MSDP encryption behavior and compatibilities

  • Configuring optimized synthetic backups for MSDP

  • About a separate network path for MSDP duplication and replication

  • Configuring a separate network path for MSDP duplication and replication

  • About MSDP optimized duplication within the same domain

  • Configuring MSDP optimized duplication within the same NetBackup domain

  • About MSDP replication to a different domain

  • Configuring MSDP replication to a different NetBackup domain

  • About configuring MSDP optimized duplication and replication bandwidth

  • About storage lifecycle policies

  • About the storage lifecycle policies required for Auto Image Replication

  • Creating a storage lifecycle policy

  • About MSDP backup policy configuration

  • Creating a backup policy

  • Resilient Network properties

  • Specifying resilient connections

  • Adding an MSDP load balancing server

  • About variable-length deduplication on NetBackup clients

  • About the MSDP pd.conf configuration file

  • Editing the MSDP pd.conf file

  • About the MSDP contentrouter.cfg file

  • About saving the MSDP storage server configuration

  • Saving the MSDP storage server configuration

  • Editing an MSDP storage server configuration file

  • Setting the MSDP storage server configuration

  • About the MSDP host configuration file

  • Deleting an MSDP host configuration file

  • Resetting the MSDP registry

  • About protecting the MSDP catalog

  • Changing the MSDP shadow catalog path

  • Changing the MSDP shadow catalog schedule

  • Changing the number of MSDP catalog shadow copies

  • Configuring an MSDP catalog backup

  • Updating an MSDP catalog backup policy

  • About MSDP FIPS compliance

  • Configuring the NetBackup client-side deduplication to support multiple interfaces of MSDP

  • About MSDP multi-domain support

  • About MSDP mutli-domain VLAN Support

  • About NetBackup WORM storage support for immutable and indelible data

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