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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Deduplication Guide
  3. Configuring deduplication
  4. Configuring the MSDP fingerprint cache behavior
  5. MSDP fingerprint cache behavior options
Veritas NetBackup™ Deduplication Guide

MSDP fingerprint cache behavior options

Table: Cache load parameters describes the parameters that control the behavior. All of these options are in the contentrouter.cfg file.

The parameters are stored in the contentrouter.cfg file.

See About the MSDP contentrouter.cfg file.

Table: Cache load parameters

Behavior

Description

CacheLoadThreadNum

The number of threads to use to load the remaining fingerprints.

The CacheLoadThreadNum in the contentrouter.cfg file controls the number of threads. NetBackup begins loading fingerprints from the next container number after the startup fingerprint loading.

The default is one.

MaxCacheSize

The percentage of RAM to use for the fingerprint cache.

The MaxCacheSize in the contentrouter.cfg file controls percentage of RAM.

The default is 50%.

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