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  2. NetBackup™ Deduplication Guide
  3. Monitoring deduplication activity
  4. Viewing storage usage within MSDP container files
NetBackup™ Deduplication Guide

Viewing storage usage within MSDP container files

The NetBackup crcontrol command reports on storage usage within containers.

To view storage usage within MSDP container files

  • Use the crcontrol command and the --dsstat option on the deduplication storage server. (For help with the command options, use the --help option.)

    The following is an example of the command usage:

    • UNIX and Linux: /usr/openv/pdde/pdcr/bin/crcontrol --dsstat

    • Windows: install_path\\Veritas\\pdde\\Crcontrol.exe --dsstat

    The following is an example of the output:

    ************ Data Store statistics ************
    Data storage   Raw    				Size   			Used   		Avail  		Use%  Free%
                   199.95GiB  63.70GiB  1.23GiB  62.48GiB  2%			98.1%
    
    Number of containers                 : 1
    Average container size               : 1049 bytes (0.00MiB)
    Space allocated for containers       : 1049 bytes (1.02KiB)
    Reserved space                       : 136.25GiB (68.1%)
    Reserved space for cloud cache       : 14.00GiB (22.0%)
    Reserved space for vpfs cloud cache  : 128.00GiB (64.0%)

    For systems that host a Media Server Deduplication Pool, you can use the following crcontrol command to show information about each partition:

    /usr/openv/pdde/pdcr/bin/crcontrol --dsstat 3

    From the command output, you can determine the following:

    Raw

    The raw size of the storage.

    Size

    The size of the storage that NetBackup can use: the Raw size of the storage minus the file system Reserved space.

    If the file system has a concept of root reserved space (such as EXT3 or VxFS), that space cannot be used for storage. The crcontrol command does not include reserved space in the available space. Unlike the crcontrol command, some operating system tools report root reserved space as usable space.

    Used

    The amount of deduplicated data that is stored on the file system. NetBackup obtains the file system used space from the operating system.

    Avail

    The Size minus the Used space.

    Use%

    The Used space divided by the Size.

More Information

About MSDP storage capacity and usage reporting

About MSDP container files

Processing the MSDP transaction queue manually

MSDP storage full conditions

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