You don't rite much about your current setup, so it's a little difficult to 
answer very specific.

First of all it can be done. No big deal.

But if your current network is 100 Mbit/s it could be that it would cost 
you less to implement a 1.000 Mbit/s network then making a dedicated backup 
network.
Depending on your network trunking some nic's to the switch could also add 
some performance.

/johnny

At 10:04 12-09-2003 +0100, Carrington-West, Jim wrote:
>Is anyone out there using Netbackup to backup servers across a separate
>'backup network'?  Veritas have suggested that we should stick another
>network card in each of our servers on a different subnet so as to separate
>backup traffic from our existing LAN traffic.  I was wondeing if anyone else
>had achieved/attempted this and whether it is worth doing.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Jim
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