When we sat down with the enterprise architects from Veritas to plan our 
installation, I asked this same (layout) question. Their answer is not to do 
it. If the link goes down (and they all do), no backups will run, due to the 
master and slave not communicating. They suggested GDM, which is actually not 
very expensive at all.

JF

On Sat, Sep 23, 2000 at 09:02:15AM -0700, Donna Nadimi filled up my inbox with:
> 
> I need some advice. 
> 
> We have two independent Netbackup master servers in place.  One at our main
> office and one at a branch office.  Until now, these have been administered
> separately.  
> 
> How hard would it be to combine the databases so that we only have one
> master at the main office and set up a media server at the branch office?
> Is it possible to import the branch database into the main database?
> 
> It seems easy enough to set up from scratch, but since there's a year's
> worth of data on the server at the branch office, that's not an option.
> 
> Both servers are Sun E450's running Solaris 2.6 with NBU 3.2.  Network is
> good between the two.  The main office and branch are just a few miles apart
> connected by a T1.
> 
> Any thoughts would be appreciated.  (Also, instructions on how to do this
> would be much appreciated as well :)
> 
> Donna Nadimi
> UNIX Systems Engineer
> Lucasfilm Ltd.
> donna.nadimi AT lucasfilm DOT com
> 
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