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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Deduplication Guide
  3. Configuring deduplication
  4. Configuring optimized synthetic backups for MSDP
Veritas NetBackup™ Deduplication Guide

Configuring optimized synthetic backups for MSDP

To configure optimized synthetic backups for MSDP, you must select the Synthetic backup policy attribute.

To configure optimized synthetic backups for MSDP

  1. Configure a Standard or MS-Windows backup policy.

    See Creating a backup policy.

    See the NetBackup Administrator's Guide, Volume I:

    http://www.veritas.com/docs/DOC5332

  2. Select the Synthetic backup attribute on the Schedule Attribute tab of the backup policy.

See Creating a backup policy.

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