Don't backup those two load balanced servers directly. Back up everything
through a third server.


> From: Matt Powell <mtpowel AT clemson DOT edu>
> Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 10:41:44 -0500
> To: Stan Horwitz <stan AT temple DOT edu>, EMC NetWorker discussion
> <NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU>
> Subject: Re: [Networker] How to back up data that is being load balanced
> 
> That would not really solve the issue of not being able to get it to back up
> without reporting errors. Then I would have two servers reporting failure
> and 1 working if I added a third server.
> 
> 
> On 1/22/09 10:36 AM, "Stan Horwitz" <stan AT temple DOT edu> wrote:
> 
>>> From: Matt Powell <mtpowel AT CLEMSON DOT EDU>
>>> Reply-To: EMC NetWorker discussion <NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU>, 
>>> Matt
>>> Powell <mtpowel AT CLEMSON DOT EDU>
>>> Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 10:28:32 -0500
>>> To: <NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU>
>>> Subject: [Networker] How to back up data that is being load balanced
>>> 
>>> We have two servers that both point to one physical location on a SAN and
>>> they share the same data. When we run our backups against these servers we
>>> get the data from one of the servers but the other one says it cannot get
>>> the load balanced data. Both servers are running Windows server 2003 and we
>>> have  Legato Networker 7.1 Power Edition. Just curious if there is any way
>>> to get it to not show as a failure in the report? Would rather not make an
>>> exclusion for this since the other server might go down and we would need to
>>> get the data from the secondary server. Any suggestions would be greatly
>>> appreciated.  
>> 
>> That's an interesting challenge. Just off the top of my head, I guess I
>> would set up a third Windows 2003 server and map the relevant disk volumes
>> to it, then backup the data via that extra server.
>> 
> 
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