Darren,

Thanks a lot for your input on this, as always!

> I don't see how this can work unless the media server binaries are smart
> enough to bind specifically to the failover IP.  I don't know any
> mechanism that would let you configure that.  Basically, the netbackup
> daemons do not look to me like they are written in such a way to support
> multiple instances on a single host.  That would be required for your
> scenario.

I didn't think it's easy to do either. I simply just wanted to find out 
since I was asked if this would be possible at all to do this in a 
meeting :)

> I would think that it would be easier to set them up as separate
> (normal) media servers, and have the policies set up in such a way that
> the other server is available as a backup. 

Can you elaborate a little bit more on how this can be done?

Thanks again,


Rongsheng