[Veritas-bu] netbackup + nat = problems.

Nope, it's always going to open a connection back.  Actually, the same
thing is happening during regular backups, but it's not a problem due
to the direction you're masq'ing in.  In your configuration, you won't
be able to do any client directed operations (including database
extensions) across networks.

You'll probably want to take a look at this also:

http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/237794.htm

Steve Mickeler writes:
> 
> Hi all.
> 
> I have 2 networks in 2 locations linked by dark fibre.
> 
> The master server and the majority of the servers being backed up are at
> location A and reside on a private network 192.168.32.0/24
> 
> The servers at location B are on a public network and in order to get to
> network A, the packets are routed to a linux box that sits on the public &
> private network, NAT'ing the public IP's to a single IP onto the
> 192.168.32.0 network.
> 
> I can initiate backups and restores from the master server on network A to
> a client on network B, but when I try to do a manual backup from network B
> to the master server on network A, it always fails.
> 
> It seems that the master server is trying to establish a new connection to
> the IP address that requested the manual backup or restore, and in doing
> so, it always tries to establish a new connection with the linux NAT box.
> 
> Is there any way around this so that the client opens a connection to the
> master server, and the master server uses that connection for the backup
> or restore, instead of trying to initiate a new connection ?
> 
> 
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