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  2. NetBackup™ Deduplication Guide
  3. Using the NetBackup Deduplication Shell
  4. About the external MSDP catalog backup
NetBackup™ Deduplication Guide

About the external MSDP catalog backup

Use the external MSDP catalog backup utility to backup the MSDP catalog to an external storage server for the containerized MSDP (Flex WORM, Flex Scale, and Cloud Scale). To protect the MSDP catalog on other platforms, see the following topic.

See About protecting the MSDP catalog.

After the configuration, the utility takes backups of the MSDP catalog and imports them to NetBackup with an SLP. The SLP must be configured first to duplicate the imported MSDP catalog backup images to another storage server.

The following are the default catalog paths for the backup selection:

  • /database_path/databases/catalogshadow

  • /storage_path/etc

  • /database_path/databases/spa

  • /storage_path/var

  • /usr/openv/lib/ost-plugins/pd.conf

  • /usr/openv/lib/ost-plugins/mtstrm.conf

  • /database_path/databases/datacheck

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