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  2. NetBackup™ Deduplication Guide
  3. Using the NetBackup Deduplication Shell
  4. About the NetBackup Deduplication Shell
NetBackup™ Deduplication Guide

About the NetBackup Deduplication Shell

You can use the NetBackup Deduplication Shell to manage the settings for WORM and MSDP storage servers on the following products:

  • Flex Appliance: Supported for WORM

  • Access Appliance: Supported for WORM

  • NetBackup Flex Scale: Supported for WORM and regular MSDP

  • NetBackup on Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS): Supported for regular MSDP

  • NetBackup on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS): Supported for regular MSDP

The interface provides tab-completed command options.

These are the main categories of commands:

  • dedupe

    This command lets you manage the deduplication service.

  • retention

    This command lets you manage image retention. This command is only available for WORM storage servers.

  • setting

    This command lets you manage the deduplication and the system configuration settings.

  • support

    This command lets you access and upload the relevant logs and configuration files for troubleshooting.

  • recovery

    This command lets you run the MSDPCheck tool to check the data integrity and report possible corrupted images.

To access the deduplication shell, open an SSH session to the storage server. When you log in for the first time, use the following credentials:

  • NetBackup Flex Scale: An appliance user with the appliance administrator role

  • All other products:

    • Username: msdpadm

    • Password: P@ssw0rd

    You are required to change your password the first time you log in.

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