You Edit the client resource and in the preferences indicate in the
'storage node' attribute field which Storage Node is to receive the
backup stream and write it to an enabled device....  

-----Original Message-----
From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On
Behalf Of Ben Harner
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 3:05 PM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [Networker] Backup over WAN

How does Networker know when to have the data travel from cient -->
storage node?  Do they need to be on the same c class or something? 


Ben


Zwe Paing wrote:
> Hi Fazil,
>
> Thanks for your reply. For my previous problem, I finally got my 
> backup running successfully after 4 days using netware with 
> compression directives.
>
> Fazil Saiyed wrote:
>> Hello,
>> Depending on how you configure the client resource the backups can be

>> directed to SN ( index will flow to backup server) or backup server (

>> index & data will be backed up by backup server).
>>   
> I'm not sure about the above part on how to do the configuration. As 
> of right now, here's what I have for the client configuration.
> http://my.networker.googlepages.com/home
>
> I only have the storage node not the server for the storage node under

> "client properties > preferences"
> So, as you suggested, it may be worth a try to place the storage node 
> and client together.
>
> Thanks again.
>
> Zwe
>
>> If it's a small client try compression on the client resource via 
>> networker directive to get the most out of the wan pipeline, if the 
>> data is large and you start seeing performance issues it's best to 
>> configure SN at the site where you have the client ( data will flow 
>> to local SN-i.e the client itself, backup index will flow to backup 
>> server).
>> HTH
>>
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