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NetBackup

The enterprise data protection standard for thirty years: 800+ workloads, MSDP deduplication, integrated anomaly detection — now with Cohesity's strength behind it.

FOCUS · ENTERPRISE THAT SCALESFrom mainframes to containers: when the estate is big and complicated, NetBackup is the proven answer
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01 · What it is

NetBackup, made clear.

NetBackup protects the world's largest data centers: 800+ workload types, scale to tens of thousands of clients, MSDP deduplication slashing storage and bandwidth, integrated immutability and anomaly detection. Since 2024 Veritas is part of Cohesity: the platform remains the enterprise standard, with a roadmap reinforced on cyber resilience and AI.

800+
supported workloads: if it exists, it gets protected
MSDP
the dedup that set the standard: storage and WAN that pay off
30 years
of enterprise: the industry's most battle-tested backup
NetBackup
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NETBACKUP CONSOLE · POLICY · SOURCE: COHESITY (VERITAS)
NETBACKUP CONSOLE · POLICY · SOURCE: COHESITY (VERITAS)
02 · How to use it well

The things that make the difference.

The platform

The enterprise estatephysical · virtual · DB · cloud · containers
Master/Primary
MSDP media servers
Clients & agentless
centralized policies · horizontal scale
NetBackupthe catalog and the brain
Immutability & anomaly detectionintegrated resilience
The standard that holds any scale

True scale

Tens of thousands of clients, huge catalogs: the architecture born for the enterprise.

MSDP everywhere

Dedup at client, media server and cloud: the TBs that neither travel nor get bought.

Modern protection

Agentless VMware, K8s, cloud IaaS/PaaS and SaaS: the platform stayed young.

Integrated resilience

Malware scanning, anomaly detection and immutability: backup that defends itself.

03 · In depth

NetBackup architecture: how it really scales

The primary server governs catalog and policies; MSDP media servers scale horizontally and deduplicate at the source; storage targets range from disk to cloud to immutable appliances; modern workloads (VMware, K8s via operator, cloud) are protected agentless via APIs; anomaly detection analyzes job patterns and malware scanning verifies copies before restore; integration with the Cohesity ecosystem brings search and insight across the data estate.

  • Primary + media — separate roles: horizontal scale without bottlenecks
  • MSDP — client-side variable dedup: traffic collapses
  • Modern agentless — VMware, cloud and K8s via API: fewer agents, less friction
  • Anomaly detection — jobs changing rhythm: flagged
  • Malware scan — copies verified before restoring
  • Storage lifecycle — disk → dedup → cloud → tape: automatic
04 · Numbers and lifecycle

The numbers that matter.

10k+
clients manageable from a single installation
-95%
typical traffic with client-side MSDP
800+
workloads: the historical category record
24/7
how we run it: NOC, patches, capacity
The enterprise doesn't forgive: NetBackup is the standard because it holds — we make it perform.
05 · Use cases

Where it really pays off.

Large enterprise

Thousands of systems, one government.

Mixed environments

UNIX, mainframe, x86, cloud: all in.

Modernization

The NetBackup you have, brought to 2026.

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