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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Deduplication Guide
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  4. About NetBackup media server deduplication
  5. About MSDP unsupported configurations
Veritas NetBackup™ Deduplication Guide

About MSDP unsupported configurations

The following items describe some configurations that are not supported:

  • NetBackup media server deduplication and Veritas Backup Exec deduplication cannot reside on the same host. If you use both NetBackup and Backup Exec deduplication, each product must reside on a separate host.

  • NetBackup does not support clustering of deduplication storage servers or load balancing servers.

  • Deduplication within each media server deduplication node is supported; global deduplication between nodes is not supported.

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