Greetings --

Thanks for all of the great responses about the 2 network interfaces.
I'm going ahead with assigning names to the secondary interface and will
be adding the new SERVER entries to the clients.

--kathy

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Kathryn Hemness
kfhemness AT ucdavis DOT edu


>
> For the clients that are on the 2nd network, add a second "SERVER = XXX"
> line to their bp.conf file with the host name of that interface on the
> master.
>
> For example, my master/media server has two interfaces: One goes to the
> GbE interface on the router, the other, a 100 MbE interface on the local
> datacenter network.
>
> One of the clients on the local datacenter network has:
>
> SERVER = silage.mayo.edu
> SERVER = silage-138.mayo.edu
> CLIENT_NAME = acsls.mayo.edu
>
> in its bp.conf file.
>
> The rest of the clients (elsewhere on the network), only have:
>
> SERVER = silage.mayo.edu
> CLIENT_NAME = XXXXX.mayo.edu
>
>
>
>
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>
> Message: 3
> Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 10:35:36 +0000 (GMT)
> From: Mark Steel <mark AT steelfamily DOT org>
> To: Kathryn Hemness <kfhemness AT ucdavis DOT edu>
> cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NB Servers with 2 network interfaces
>
> Hi
>
> It really depends on your name resolution. if the 2nd interface returns
> the same host name, no issues. if its a different name, then you need to
> add that name to the client properties servers list so that it recognises
> the server as valid.
>
> regards
> mark
>
>

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> Message: 6
> Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 09:40:47 -0500
> From: Gerrit Bos <gbos AT uoguelph DOT ca>
> To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Re: NB Servers with 2 network interfaces
>
> We also have quite a few interfaces on our backup server, and Cris's
> solution works well from the server perspective.  What I don't have as
> good a handle on is when both client and server have multiple interfaces
> and we want backups and restores to go through a secondary interface on
> both client and server.  I don't have a cookbook approach that always
> works, and for many boxes our group doesn't do the administration.  I
> usually end up with a combination of using REQUIRED_INTERFACE in the
> bp.conf, altnames entries so the restores work regardless of which
> interface the requests come through, /etc/hosts or DNS entries and
> client names for the specific interfaces.  But usually the approach is
> to keep trying different things until it works.  If someone has a
> cookbook/checklist they use for this, it would be majorly appreciated!
> Thanks....Gerrit
>
>

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>
> Message: 7
> From: "Shafto, Eric" <Eric.Shafto AT drkw DOT com>
> To: "'Gerrit Bos'" <gbos AT uoguelph DOT ca>, veritas-bu AT 
> mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Re: NB Servers with 2 network interfaces
> Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 09:56:35 -0500
>
> We had no end of trouble when we were using required interface. We finally
> just made it so that we always used the name of the backup interface in the
> class and in the bp.confs (both for servers and clients). We have a few
> clients that back up over the production network. We enter them in the class
> with the production interface name and we use the production interface of
> the server in the local bp.conf.
>
> We haven't had any problems backing up or restoring since we did this.
>