Hi All,

I am designing a centralized backup/restore solution for 100+ branches. We are 
currently using NetBackup to do the data backup at a local tape 
library attached to each branch server. Our business folks do not want to 
mount/unmount tapes for weekly and incremental backup. So my task is 
to find an innovative way to solve this tape handling problem. We also have a 
very strict SLA for data restore ( 4 hrs) with business. 

I am wondering if I can keep the local tape library in a lock down state and 
use it for weekly full backup (i.e overwriting tapes) and do the incremental 
back at the central site. This means that each NetBackup client needs to talk 
to a Master and Media Server for the Full backup and then talk to another 
Master/Media Server for incremental backup over the WAN.  Can a NetBackup 
client configured to talk ot multiple Master server?  IF so, what is the way to 
configure it? 

My Branch servers are all Win2003 Servers and have medium speed WAN link. Any 
insight to the proposed solution would be much appreciated. I exhuasted 
seraching NetBackup documentation and I could not find an answer (yes/No) to my 
question. I hope Fourm members can anser to my question based on their 
experience. Thanks

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