We are running Netbackup 7.5.0.6 on both our master and media servers, Windows Server 2008 R2 is the operating system on both systems. We have a mixed bag of virtual and physical servers mostly Windows based with a handful of Linux boxes thrown in the mix. Currently we use a disk to tape strategy using the disk staging scheduler to duplicate the images to tape. I want to configure deduplication and the supporting storage units on my media server then use SLP to duplicate images to tape, we are required to send tapes offsite on a daily basis. Although I am fairly certain how to configure the storage server and storage unit disk pool I have some general questions.
Is client or server side dedup the best option to back up the VMware VM’s? How do I configure the SLP to copy all images backed up that night to duplicate to tape, will one SLP accomplish this task?