> From: Matt Powell <mtpowel AT CLEMSON DOT EDU>
> Reply-To: EMC NetWorker discussion <NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU>, 
> Matt
> Powell <mtpowel AT CLEMSON DOT EDU>
> Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 10:28:32 -0500
> To: <NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU>
> Subject: [Networker] How to back up data that is being load balanced
> 
> We have two servers that both point to one physical location on a SAN and
> they share the same data. When we run our backups against these servers we
> get the data from one of the servers but the other one says it cannot get
> the load balanced data. Both servers are running Windows server 2003 and we
> have  Legato Networker 7.1 Power Edition. Just curious if there is any way
> to get it to not show as a failure in the report? Would rather not make an
> exclusion for this since the other server might go down and we would need to
> get the data from the secondary server. Any suggestions would be greatly
> appreciated.  

That's an interesting challenge. Just off the top of my head, I guess I
would set up a third Windows 2003 server and map the relevant disk volumes
to it, then backup the data via that extra server.

To sign off this list, send email to listserv AT listserv.temple DOT edu and 
type "signoff networker" in the body of the email. Please write to 
networker-request AT listserv.temple DOT edu if you have any problems with this 
list. You can access the archives at 
http://listserv.temple.edu/archives/networker.html or
via RSS at http://listserv.temple.edu/cgi-bin/wa?RSS&L=NETWORKER