On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Zaigui Wang wrote:

> I'd like to backup different save sets on the backup
> server with different priority, so what I am trying to
> do is create separate, and meaningful client names in
> the backup client list.
>
> For example, I'd like to use SERVER_etc for backing up
> the /etc, and SERVER_opt for backing up the /opt
> directory, etc. I specified both as individual host
> entry in the /etc/hosts file on the server and try to
> add them into the backup, it failed with an error like
> "SERVER is alredy an alias for SERVER_etc".
>
> What am I doing wrong? and what is best the way of
> doing it?

Your client entries all need to be the same. You could
probably fudge the different names with ip address entires
in your server's hosts file, but that gets confusing (to
me) and it would probably count as separate individual
clients from a license point of view (which costs money).

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