Protecting MSDP deduplication databases
I have two Media 7.5.0.4 servers running MSDP in my environment (on Win2008R2). How do I backup/protect the deduplication database that's on each server? Does the Calaog backup do that? I may be blin...
This question was asked a while ago in a Partner mailing list.
This is how Alex Davies replied:
The meta-base (the “database” disk on an MSDP server) is specific to the deduplication data held on the same server (the “data” disk) and we consider the contents of both disks to be part of the data store itself and not a data store and a catalog.
The recommended way to “protect” both the data and database (beyond the obvious storage level protection) is to use optimized duplication (either within the domain or, using A.I.R., between domains) to duplicate the data between MSDP media servers.
Alex Davies
Manager, NetBackup TFE
