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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Deduplication Guide
  3. Monitoring deduplication activity
  4. About monitoring MSDP processes
Veritas NetBackup™ Deduplication Guide

About monitoring MSDP processes

The following table shows the deduplication processes about which NetBackup reports:

Table: Where to monitor the main MSDP processes

What

Where to monitor it

NetBackup Deduplication Engine

In the NetBackup Administration Console, the NetBackup Deduplication Engine appears as spoold on the Daemons tab of the Activity Monitor.

The NetBackup bpps command also shows the spoold process.

NetBackup Deduplication Manager

In the NetBackup Administration Console, the NetBackup Deduplication Manager appears as spad on the Daemons tab of the Activity Monitor.

The NetBackup bpps command also shows the spad process.

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