* Hillman, Eric <Eric.Hillman at blackrock.com> [2006-09-29 12:44]:
> 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!

I can confirm that Exchange gets very unhappy when the client name does
not match the actual hostname.

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David Rock
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