10-11-2012 02:09 PM
Hi there, I havfe upgraded to netbackup 7.5 and I would like to use client side deduplication, does anyone have a how to or even point me the way to do that?
thanks
Best Regards
Cláudio
10-11-2012 05:39 PM
SETTING YOUR CLIENT
On the Netbackup Admin console, expand
Host Properties -> Master Servers
Double Click and open the properties of the Master Server
Click on the "Client Attributes" section.
Find your client in the list and click on it, if its not there click on Add and add it in.
On the first page there s a drop down box "Dedupelication" , select "Always use Client Side"
POLICY
You need the client in a Policy which writes to a MSDP Dedupe Pool (or PDDO if you have Puredisk)
10-15-2012 11:53 AM
I have to create a Disk Pool to deduplicate, this pool, can I use a normal (or thin) LUN ?? local disk??
10-16-2012 07:28 PM
It shouldnt matter what the back end disk is. We are using Dell720XD's with 26 internal disks and use Storage Foundations to manage the disks.
As long as the disk is visible in Windows as a Drive Letter (We use F:\ ) and create a folder called DDUP.
11-05-2012 06:58 AM
@Claudio :
I am confused so let me clear up things:
Do you have a deduplication server (a media server with msdp pool) with a pool up and running?
If not, you have to build a msdp pool . KEEP THE PASSWORD YOU WILL PUT @ THE POOL SOMEWHERE.You may need it sometime.
If yes, you have to add an entry at the "client attributes" section as stated above at the second post.Then, you will deside which side will do the dedup.Client side is more network free method (especially if you have WAN lines between) but you will also have some CPU overhead.
11-20-2012 05:15 AM
Hi there
Sorry about the timing here.
I am using a Netbackup Enterprise Server 6.5.6, I´ll update to 7.5, soo I have to learn almost everything about Client side deduplication.
Today I have
1 Master/Media server
3 Libraries, SL180, SL24, DL4000
At the master/media server I have set 1TB for disk Staging,
I got perm to upgrade the NBU, as soon as a I can backup clients by WAN (or VPN) some desktops, laptops, and Small Servers. of course I´ll need client side dedup, but I really don´t know where to start.
Thanks in advance.
11-21-2012 01:04 AM