We ran across a variant of this problem several years ago; Because of it I now 
have a second instance of Networker (at 6.1.3) that I couldn't upgrade for 
budget reasons.  Thankfully its non-critical and is going away.

If you lose network connectivity to the remote Storage Node, the only thing 
major that happens is any backups or recoveries 'pointing' to that node will 
not work.  Index data is kept centrally on your local Server, so that is not an 
issue.

As long as you're not doing anything else backup-wise on the Node and you can 
go a night or two without backup at the site (telco issues can get hairy 
sometimes), it's not a bad thing IMHO.

If you go the route I did (somewhat under duress), you'll need to make sure 
that you can budget for two NW Server upgrades instead of one each time around, 
or be willing to keep the remote site and its clients at the lower rev.

--TSK




Ronny Egner wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> we have a branch with two servers one with a local attached tape drive.
> The connection between the main location and the branch is rather small
> (2 Mbit/s) so backing up the data (500 GB) over the internet doesnt seem
> suitable.
> 
> So there are from my point of view two options for backing up
> the data with networker:
> 
> 1. A separate networker installation in the branch
> 2. Using the server with the tape drive as storage node
> 
> The first option is more flexible at the cost of more administration.
> 
> The second option integrates in the current environment. My concern when
> using a storage node is: what happens with the index data if the
> connection between the storage node (in the branch) and the networker
> server (at the main location) disconnects?
> 
> 
> Or are there more options?
> 


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