About the NetBackup deduplication options

Veritas NetBackup provides the deduplication options that let you deduplicate data everywhere, as close to the source of data as you require.

Deduplication everywhere provides the following benefits:

Reduce the amount of data that is stored.
Reduce backup bandwidth.
Reduce backup windows.
Reduce infrastructure.

Deduplication everywhere lets you choose at which point in the backup process to perform deduplication. NetBackup can manage your deduplication wherever you implement it in the backup stream.

Table: NetBackup deduplication options describes the options for deduplication.

Table: NetBackup deduplication options

Type	Description
Media server deduplication	NetBackup clients send their backups to a NetBackup media server, which deduplicates the backup data. A NetBackup media server hosts the NetBackup Deduplication Engine, which writes the data to a Media Server Deduplication Pool on the target storage and manages the deduplicated data See About NetBackup media server deduplication.
Client deduplication	With NetBackup MSDP client deduplication, clients deduplicate their backup data and then send it directly to the storage server, which writes it to the storage. The network traffic is reduced greatly. See About NetBackup Client Direct deduplication.
NetBackup appliance deduplication	Veritas provides several hardware and a software solutions that include NetBackup deduplication. The NetBackup appliances have their own documentation set: https://www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/Appliances.html

Type

Description

Media server deduplication

NetBackup clients send their backups to a NetBackup media server, which deduplicates the backup data. A NetBackup media server hosts the NetBackup Deduplication Engine, which writes the data to a Media Server Deduplication Pool on the target storage and manages the deduplicated data

See About NetBackup media server deduplication.

Client deduplication

With NetBackup MSDP client deduplication, clients deduplicate their backup data and then send it directly to the storage server, which writes it to the storage. The network traffic is reduced greatly.

See About NetBackup Client Direct deduplication.

NetBackup appliance deduplication

Veritas provides several hardware and a software solutions that include NetBackup deduplication.

The NetBackup appliances have their own documentation set:

https://www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/Appliances.html

Note:

Cloud Catalyst was deprecated in favor of MSDP Direct Cloud Tiering (MSDP Cloud) in NetBackup 8.3 and is now removed in NetBackup 9.0 (except for back-level support). In future releases, all Cloud Catalyst information will be removed from this manual.

For MSDP cloud setup information, refer to the NetBackup Web UI Administrator's Guide.

About the NetBackup deduplication options

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