That would not really solve the issue of not being able to get it to back up
without reporting errors. Then I would have two servers reporting failure
and 1 working if I added a third server.


On 1/22/09 10:36 AM, "Stan Horwitz" <stan AT temple DOT edu> wrote:

>> 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.
> 

-- 
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Clemson University
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