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Deduplication Pool (MSDP): Overview.

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Deduplication Pool (MSDP):
Overview.
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This post covers Media Server Deduplication Storage Pool (MSDP) which is
an embedded deduplication technology that ships and is installed with
base NetBackup 7.6 software, and that is provided on NetBackup
appliances running version 2.6 software. There are below bene ts of
deduplication:

Reduce the amount of data that is stored.

Reduce backup bandwidth.
Reduce backup windows.
Reduce infrastructure.

There are available two deduplication options:

Client deduplication
Media Server deduplication

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 With Media Server Deduplication , NetBackup clients send their backups to
a NetBackup media server, which deduplicates the backup data. A
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NetBackup media server hosts the NetBackup Deduplication Engine, which
writes the data to a Media Server Deduplication Pool on the target storage
and manages the deduplicated data.
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With NetBackup MSDP client deduplication, clients deduplicate their
backup data and then send it directly to the storage server, which writes it
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to the storage. The network tra c is reduced.

For all les to be de-duplicated:

1. De-duplication plugin Separates le metadata and contents.

2. The le contents are then Logically separated into segments.
3. Hash ngerprint of segments are taken.
4. Finger prints are identi ed for unique segments and then store all
unique segments.
5. Process the data stream.

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 Uniqueness of data segments is maintained across all clients – not just for
individual client backup data.

MSDP storage servers

A storage server is an entity that writes to and reads from the storage. One
host functions as the storage server, and only one storage server exists for
each NetBackup deduplication node. The host must be a NetBackup media
server. The MSDP storage server does the following:

Receives the backups from clients and then deduplicates the data.
Receives the deduplicated data from clients or from other media
servers.
You can con gure NetBackup clients and other NetBackup media
servers to deduplicate data also. In which case, the storage server
only receives the data after it is deduplicated.
Writes the deduplicated data to and reads the deduplicated data
from the disk storage.
Manages that storage.
Manages the deduplication processes

MSDP stream handlers

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 NetBackup provides the stream handlers that process various backup data
stream types. Stream handlers improve backup deduplication rates by
processing the underlying data stream:

Performs multiple MD5 ngerprint calculations in parallel, rather than

serially.
Overlaps I/O and CPU operations, making better use of system
resources
Uses batch ngerprint queries to determine if data segments are
unique
Transmit data concurrently to the Deduplication Engine over multiple
streams

On Windows-based systems, the multi-threaded agent runs as the

NetBackup Deduplication -Threaded Agent, that is visible in the Windows’
Services Manager (mtstrmd process). On UNIX and Linux-based NetBackup
systems, the multi-threaded agent is visible in the output of the bpps
command as mtstrmd

MSDP Data Integrity Enhancements

There are following Data Itengrity Enhancements:

Data loss and corruption are automatically contained to ensure new

backups are intact.
CRC checking of data containers is performed automatically with the
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 results reported to NetBackup
Storage leaks are automatically detected and repaired.
Reference database entries are automatically recovered if they are 
corrupt or missing.
Storage garbage collection is automatically performed.

MSDP new features in NetBackup 7.6.1

Support for a 96TB Media Server Deduplication Pool (MSDP) on SLES

11.
Catalog self-healing. Two identical catalog contents are maintained in
two di erent formats in real time, and corruption/loss of the primary
copy can be detected and xed automatically.
Catalog disaster recovery. O ine protection of MSDP metadata via a
NetBackup policy. If MSDP catalog self-healing fails due to total loss
of both the MSDP catalog and its shadow, the MSDP catalog can be
recovered to its state as it was at the backup time of the restored
MSDP catalog backup.

To con gure Media Server Deduplication Pool (MSDP) please follow my

posts:

How to con gure NetBackup Media Server Deduplication Pool

(MSDP)?
How to con gure NetBackup Auto Image Replication (AIR)?

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