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NetBackup™ Backup Planning and Performance Tuning Guide

Best practices

This section includes the following topics:
  • Best practices: NetBackup SAN Client

  • Best practices: NetBackup AdvancedDisk

  • Best practices: Disk pool configuration - setting concurrent jobs and maximum I/O streams

  • Best practices: About disk staging and NetBackup performance

  • Best practices: Supported tape drive technologies for NetBackup

  • Best practices: NetBackup tape drive cleaning

  • Best practices: NetBackup data recovery methods

  • Best practices: Suggestions for disaster recovery planning

  • Best practices: NetBackup naming conventions

  • Best practices: NetBackup duplication

  • Best practices: NetBackup deduplication

  • Best practices: Universal shares

  • NetBackup for VMware sizing and best practices

  • Best practices: Storage lifecycle policies (SLPs)

  • Best practices: NetBackup NAS-Data-Protection (D-NAS)

  • Best practices: NetBackup for Nutanix AHV

  • Best practices: NetBackup Sybase database

  • Best practices: Avoiding media server resource bottlenecks with Oracle VLDB backups

  • Best practices: Avoiding media server resource bottlenecks with MSDPLB+ prefix policy

  • Best practices: Cloud deployment considerations

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