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  2. NetBackup™ Deduplication Guide
  3. Configuring deduplication
NetBackup™ Deduplication Guide

Configuring deduplication

This section includes the following topics:
  • Configuring media server deduplication in NetBackup

  • Configuring MSDP client-side deduplication

  • About the MSDP Deduplication Multi-Threaded Agent

  • About MSDP fingerprinting

  • Enabling 400 TB support for MSDP

  • Configuring a storage server for a Media Server Deduplication Pool

  • About disk pools for NetBackup deduplication

  • Configuring a Media Server Deduplication Pool storage unit

  • Configuring client attributes for MSDP client-side deduplication

  • About MSDP compression

  • About MSDP encryption

  • About MSDP Encryption using NetBackup Key Management Server service

  • About MSDP Encryption using external KMS server

  • Configuring optimized synthetic backups for MSDP

  • About a separate network path for MSDP duplication and replication

  • About MSDP optimized duplication within the same domain

  • About MSDP replication to a different domain

  • Configuring MSDP replication to a different NetBackup domain

  • About configuring MSDP optimized duplication and replication bandwidth

  • About performance tuning of optimized duplication and replication for large images

  • About performance tuning of optimized duplication and replication for MSDP cloud

  • About storage lifecycle policies

  • About MSDP backup policy configuration

  • Creating a backup policy

  • Resilient network properties

  • Adding an MSDP load balancing server

  • About variable-length deduplication on NetBackup clients

  • About the MSDP pd.conf configuration file

  • About the MSDP contentrouter.cfg file

  • About saving the MSDP storage server configuration

  • Setting the MSDP storage server configuration

  • About the MSDP host configuration file

  • Deleting an MSDP host configuration file

  • Resetting the MSDP registry

  • About protecting the MSDP catalog

  • About MSDP FIPS compliance

  • Configuring the NetBackup client-side deduplication to support multiple interfaces of MSDP

  • About MSDP multi-domain support

  • About MSDP application user support

  • About MSDP mutli-domain VLAN Support

  • About NetBackup WORM storage support for immutable and indelible data

  • Running MSDP services with the non-root user

  • Running MSDP commands with the non-root user

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