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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Deduplication Guide
  3. Managing deduplication
  4. About managing MSDP storage read performance
Veritas NetBackup™ Deduplication Guide

About managing MSDP storage read performance

NetBackup provides some control over the processes that are used for read operations. The read operation controls can improve performance for the jobs that read from the storage. Such jobs include restore jobs, duplication jobs, and replication jobs.

In most cases, you should change configuration file options only when directed to do so by a Veritas support representative.

Defragment the storage

NetBackup includes a process, called rebasing, which defragments the backup images in a deduplication pool. Read performance improves when the file segments from a client backup are close to each other on deduplication storage.

See About MSDP storage rebasing.

Decrypt the data on the client rather than the server

The RESTORE_DECRYPT_LOCAL parameter in the pd.conf file specifies on which host to decrypt and decompress the data during restore operations.

See About the MSDP pd.conf configuration file.

See MSDP pd.conf file parameters.

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