Hrm... Never noticed this before.  I setup a test pointing
IMAGINARYSERVER1 to my Exchange Cluster here and Whalla - did not work.
Error 71 "None of the files on the list exist."  I guess you do need the
actual host (or cluster) name to backup exchange.  Not really an issue
for us currently using HOSTS files, but you could probably get around
anything with HOSTS files or static DNS.

-Jonathan 

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[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Hillman,
Eric
Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 12:44 PM
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Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Client Hostnames

Thanks for all of your replies.  This has been a very interesting and
helpful thread.  I may have found one issues when using aliases however.
Can anyone confirm that you CANNOT use an alias of the server name when
backing up an Exchange server/cluster?  From what I'm reading, the
netbackup client needs to reference the Exchange application using the
actual hostname used when installing Exchange in order to successfully
access the specified storage groups.  This would mean that the actual
hostname of the box needs to be added to the Netbackup Policy and not a
"-backup" hostname.  Hopefully, this would be the only case that an
alias cannot be used.  Thanks!

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[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of David
Rock
Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 11:19 AM
To: veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Client Hostnames

* Bobby Williams <bobbyrjw at bellsouth.net> [2006-09-28 05:47]:
>  
> About the FQN's, we don't use them.  Why type all of those extra
characters?
> Our DR strategy is to carry our offsite tapes to one of our other 
> sites and do our recovery.  Without using FQN's, we just bring a 
> development box back up as a lost production box and put it in the
domain of the DR site.

Depends on environment.  We have a shared NBU infrastructure that backs
up multiple client environments, therefore we have the potential problem
of two different clients with the same short name.

--
David Rock
david at graniteweb.com
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