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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Deduplication Guide
  3. Configuring deduplication
  4. Enabling 250-TB support for MSDP
Veritas NetBackup™ Deduplication Guide

Enabling 250-TB support for MSDP

Before you configure a storage server for a 250-TB Media Server Deduplication Pool, you must enable support for the multiple volumes that are required.

See About MSDP storage capacity.

See About provisioning the storage for MSDP.

To enable support for a 250-TB NetBackup MSDP

  • On the NetBackup media server that you want to use as the MSDP storage server, create an empty nbapp-release file in the /etc directory. The following is an example that shows how to use the touch command to create the file:

    touch /etc/nbapp-release

    Use the following command the create the file on Windows:

    mkdir c:\etc
    echo Windows_BYO > "c:\etc\nbapp-release"

For additional information, refer to the following article:

How to configure a 250TB Media Server Deduplication Pool (MSDP) on Linux and Windows

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