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Ajith_Sankar
Level 6
11 years ago

MSDP Dedup

How do i identify which method has used to create the Stoarge server, MSDP or Pure Disk.  whne i do nbdevquery -liststs it shows all Puredisk. 
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Backup and Recovery
NetBackup
Windows Server (2003-2008)
  • Mouse's avatar
    Mouse
    11 years ago

    PureDisk is a different software to NBU, it comes as software appliance which you install on your own hardware or in a form of NBU 50xx appliances. If you don't see those laying around then you may not have PureDisk.

    Apparently if you have PureDisk, DR for it is not simple

    MSDP is NBU built-in deduplication which comes along with NBU software.

    For historical reasons they all named as PureDisk, it used to be the technology used in both

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Mouse
Moderator
11 years ago

PureDisk is a different software to NBU, it comes as software appliance which you install on your own hardware or in a form of NBU 50xx appliances. If you don't see those laying around then you may not have PureDisk.

Apparently if you have PureDisk, DR for it is not simple

MSDP is NBU built-in deduplication which comes along with NBU software.

For historical reasons they all named as PureDisk, it used to be the technology used in both