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Re: [Veritas-bu] Master with multiple NIC's

2010-01-14 16:13:21
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Master with multiple NIC's
From: A Darren Dunham <ddunham AT taos DOT com>
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:13:06 +0000
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 10:05:01PM +0100, WALLEBROEK Bart wrote:
> Is it supported in NBU that a Solaris Master/Media has multiple NIC's for 
> backups of different clients on different networks ?

Sure.

> Master has 2 network interfaces.  Interface A goes to network A to backup 
> clients on network A;  Interface B goes to network B to backup clients on 
> network B.
> 
> If it is supported how is this configured in NBU ?

If your OS knows it is on both subnets, then the routing table will
allow it to do that automatically.

> The REQUIRED_INTERFACE option is to make sure that all NBU traffic
> goes over the configured network interface but you can only configure
> 1 interface.  Or am I wrong here.

That can be used to override certain things, but as you note, it is a
rather large hammer.  Better if you can avoid using it at all.  In your
setup, it wouldn't seem to be necessary.

-- 
Darren
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