Configuring deduplication 55
Configuring a deduplication storage unit
For example, assume that you have 100 important clients, 500 regular clients, and four media servers. You can use two media servers to back up your most important clients and two media servers to back up you regular clients.
The following example describes how to configure a favorable
■Configure the media servers for NetBackup deduplication and configure the storage.
■Configure a disk pool.
■Configure a storage unit for your most important clients (such as
■Create a backup policy for the 100 important clients and select the
■Configure another storage unit (such as
■Configure a backup policy for the 500 regular clients and select the
Backup traffic is routed to the wanted data movers by the storage unit settings.
Note: NetBackup uses storage units for media server selection for write activity (backups and duplications) only. For restores, NetBackup chooses among all media servers that can access the disk pool.
Throttle traffic to the media servers
You can use the Maximum concurrent jobs settings on disk pool storage units to throttle the traffic to the media servers. Effectively, this setting also directs higher loads to specific media servers when you use multiple storage units for the same disk pool. A higher number of concurrent jobs means that the disk can be busier than if the number is lower.
For example, two storage units use the same set of media servers. One of the storage units