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  2. NetBackup™ Deduplication Guide
  3. Configuring and managing universal shares
  4. Introduction to universal shares
  5. Overview of universal shares
NetBackup™ Deduplication Guide

Overview of universal shares

The universal share feature provides data ingest into an existing NetBackup deduplication pool (MSDP) or a supported Cohesity appliance using an NFS or a CIFS (SMB) share.

Both universal shares and MSDP use deduplication and compression.

Space efficiency is achieved by storing this data directly into an existing NetBackup-based Media Server Deduplication Pool.

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