About the deduplication storage paths

When you configure the deduplication storage server, you must enter the path name to the storage. The storage path is the directory in which NetBackup stores the raw backup data.

Because the storage requires a directory path, do not use only a root node (/) or drive letter (G:\) as the storage path.

You also can specify a different location for the deduplication database. The database path is the directory in which NetBackup stores and maintains the structure of the stored deduplicated data.

For performance optimization, Symantec recommends that you use a separate disk, volume, partition, or spindle for the deduplication database.

If the directory or directories do not exist, NetBackup creates them and populates them with the necessary subdirectory structure. If the directory or directories exist, NetBackup populates them with the necessary subdirectory structure.

The path names must use ASCII characters only.

The NetBackup Media Server Deduplication Option does not support NFS mounted file systems.

Caution:

You cannot change the paths after NetBackup configures the deduplication storage server. Therefore, carefully decide during the planning phase where and how you want the deduplicated backup data stored.