Paul,

It sounds like you are backing up multiple clients (each has one 
interface) to a single server with two nics.

Can you give a bit more detail on bp.conf config on the client and the 
server?

I'm thinking i can do this with my fibre card and the bge interface on my 
v240.

Karl

veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu wrote on 12/05/2006 12:23:33 PM:

> Sorta true, Darren.
> 
> However, since in an NBU env, the master initiates the backup, and 
> theclient replies to the interface from which the backup was 
> initiated, youget very good load balancing.
> Ie, the master server starts the backup via interface-A, the client 
> seesthe backup request from interface-A, and then starts 
> transmitting backupdata backup to interface-A.
> I'm getting almost exactly 50:50 loadbalancing of incoming data on 
> apair of GigE NICs.
> You will need to have the "interface name" of both NICs in the 
> clients'bp.conf files.
> However, I'm troubleshooting an issue with hot DB backups that I 
> thinkmight be related to ambiguity between the interface names and 
> thehostname.....although I think I may be able to resolve it with a 
> DNShunt pool.If that doesn't work, then I'll probably have to go 
> withEtherChannel/Suntrunking for the master, though I'll probably 
> leave themedia servers as they are.
> Paul
> -- 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----> From: veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.
> auburn.edu > [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On 
> Behalf > Of Darren Dunham> Sent: December 1, 2006 11:02 AM> To: 
> Veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] 
> Trunking in solaris...> > All versions of Solaris support IPMP in 
> software.  This > allows for a bit> of outbound load sharing, but 
> isn't really appropriate for load> balancing incoming data (as you 
> might want on a netbackup server).  It> does provide you with 
> failover though, and you can balance > the incoming> traffic 
> manually.  If all you need is failover, then it may be> sufficient.>
> <snip>> > IP Mulitpathing (IPMP) and Link Aggregation configuration 
> > details should> be in the administrators guide for the version of 
> Solaris you have (if> supported). > 
> 
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