It is important that when backing up the Exchange policy type, that the
client name be the Netbios name.  Had this problem with the error 71's
as well, and had to carefully read the docs for the setup of the server.

Again, the docs are your friend.

Amazing that Veritas has such good documentation, and such lousy tech
support.

-Andy

Martin, Jonathan (Contractor) wrote:
> 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 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Hillman,
> Eric
> Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 12:44 PM
> To: veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> 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!
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> [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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