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Setting Up the Dell™ DR Series System on Symantec NetBackup to Use Virtual Synthetic Backup | February 2014
Executive summary
This paper provides information about how to set up the Dell DR Series system to run Virtual Synthetic
Backup on NetBackup (NBU). This document is a quick reference guide and does not include all DR Series
system deployment best practices.
See the DR Series Deduplication Appliance documentation other data management application best
practices whitepapers for additional information.
For additional data management application (DMA) best practice whitepapers, see the DR Series system
documentation a
Note: The DR Series system and NetBackup screenshots used in this document may vary slightly,
depending on the DR Series system firmware version and NetBackup version used.
Terminology
•
Dedupe backup:
In this mode, deduplication is done on the client and then the deduplicated packets
are sent to the DR Series system.
• Passthrough backup:
In this mode, deduplication is done on the DR Series system after data is
transferred from the client.
• Synthetic backup:
A syntheticis identical to a regular full backup in terms of data, but it is
created when data is collected from a previous, older full backup and assembled with subsequent
backups.
• Virtual Synthetic Backup/Optimized synthetic Backup:
A
synthetic backup that avoids the need to
move data across the network. The media server tells the storage server which full and incremental
images to use to create the synthetic image.