I'm running Netbackup 7.5 in a Windows environment. I have lots of Windows clients running backups to a Media Server Deduplication Pool and all the deduplication is happening on the media server. I have a single master server.
I have a remote office with 6 or 7 Windows servers that currently has its own media server and tape library but soon will have neither. I will need to back them up to my local dedupe disk pool over the network. Seems a good situation to enable client-side dedupe on those 6 or 7 servers.
From what I can tell I need to go into the Properties of the Master Server under Host Properties. Then under Client Attributes I make the change under Deduplication Location from 'Always use the media server' to 'Prefer to use client-side deduplication' (or Always use ...).
Since I only have one master server this is pretty much a global change, right? I can go to each policy and check the 'disable client-side deduplication' box but that's a lot more work than just enabling client-side deduplication for a few servers.
How do I enable client-side deduplication for just a handful of clients? If I change the Deduplication Location in the Client Attributes of the Host Properties does it just apply to the clients listed in the client list or does it apply to all the clients of that master server?
Thanks a million.