Ransomware attackers specifically target and attempt to destroy backup systems to increase the probability of payment. Hardening your system is critical. Please ensure you have reviewed your platform security using the Security Hardening Checklist
Cohesity

COHESITY Documentation

Explore our documentation to get started, discover products & new features, access troubleshooting guides, register sources, platforms support.

Products
Data Security Alliance
Visit Cohesity.com
Demos
Support
Blogs
Developers
Partner Portals
Cohesity Community
© 2026 Cohesity, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Terms of Use|
Privacy Policy|
Legal|
  1. Home
  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Deduplication Guide
  3. Managing deduplication
  4. Managing Media Server Deduplication Pools
  5. Determining the MSDP disk volume state
Veritas NetBackup™ Deduplication Guide

Determining the MSDP disk volume state

Use the NetBackup nbdevquery command to determine the state of the volume in a deduplication disk pool. NetBackup exposes all of the storage for MSDP as a single volume, PureDiskVolume. The command shows the properties and attributes of the PureDiskVolume.

To determine MSDP disk volume state

  • Display the volume state by using the following command:

    UNIX: /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/nbdevquery -listdv -stype PureDisk -U -dp disk_pool_name

    Windows: install_path\NetBackup\bin\admincmd\nbdevquery -listdv -stype PureDisk -U -dp disk_pool_name

    The state is either UP or DOWN.

    The following is example output

    Disk Pool Name      : MSDP_Disk_Pool
    Disk Type           : PureDisk
    Disk Volume Name    : PureDiskVolume
    Disk Media ID       : @aaaab
    Total Capacity (GB) : 49.98
    Free Space (GB)     : 43.66
    Use%                : 12
    Status              : UP
    Flag                : ReadOnWrite
    Flag                : AdminUp
    Flag                : InternalUp
    Num Read Mounts     : 0
    Num Write Mounts    : 1
    Cur Read Streams    : 0
    Cur Write Streams   : 0

Feedback

Was this page helpful?
Previous

Clearing a Media Server Deduplication Pool attribute

Next

Changing the MSDP disk volume state

Feedback

Was this page helpful?