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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Deduplication Guide
  3. Configuring deduplication
  4. Changing the number of MSDP catalog shadow copies
Veritas NetBackup™ Deduplication Guide

Changing the number of MSDP catalog shadow copies

NetBackup keeps five shadow copies of the MSDP catalog. You can change the number of copies.

See About protecting the MSDP catalog.

To change the number of MSDP catalog shadow copies

  1. Open the following file in a text editor:

    UNIX: /storage_path/etc/puredisk/spa.cfg

    Windows: storage_path\etc\puredisk\spa.cfg

  2. Find the CatalogBackupVersions parameter and change the value to the wanted number of shadow copies. The valid values are 1 to 256, inclusive.
  3. After your changes, save the file.
  4. Restart the NetBackup Deduplication Manager (spad).

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