Create a new interface on the exchange server for the backup network.
On your backup servers, override the DNS name with a local /etc/hosts
entry that has the production exchange instance name associated with the
exchange server's backup lan IP.

Paul

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu 
> [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf 
> Of Jon Bousselot
> Sent: April 17, 2008 11:14 AM
> To: James Pattinson
> Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup of exchange using "wrong" name
> 
> 
> James,
> 
> I had the same setup and the same problem in NB5.x and 
> Exchange 2000.  I 
> suspect the agent was looking at the mail database and seeing the 
> hostname of the server only.  The quick solution was putting 
> the primary 
> interface of the system on gigabit and living with the 
> performance hit 
> during the backup window, which was late at night.
> I never found a method to implement backups of exchange, like you 
> describe, by looking through this list or the Veritas site.  Possibly 
> due to the method by which the exchange system was built, the 
> policy I 
> used to backup the filesystems used the FQDN, but the policy for the 
> mailboxes and mail store used the short name. 
> 
> I think we left the backup network on the box for 
> filesystems, because 
> it wasn't a big deal to have a couple of extra gig ports 
> consumed, and a 
> few years later we were forced onto Notes.  Problem solved.
> 
> -Jon
> 
> > Hi All
> >
> > I'm backing up a customer's machine over a dedicated backup 
> network with 
> > our own naming convention, which doesn't always relate to 
> the actual 
> > name of the machine. This has been working OK for 
> Filesystem and SQL 
> > backups, but I am unable to get an exchange backup working 
> in this way.
> >
> > Example
> >   
> > 10:26:43.171: [5140.964] <4> backup_create: INF - NetBackup Temp 
> > Directory: 'D:\Program Files\Veritas\\NetBackup\Temp'
> > 10:26:43.171: [5140.964] <2> tar_base::V_vTarMsgW: ERR - object not 
> > found for file system backup: Microsoft Information Store:
> >
> > So it looks like I'm missing a bit of configuration on the Exchange 
> > agent to tell it to use a certain name when talking to Exchange...
> >
> > Can anyone help?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > James
> 
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