We also have quite a few interfaces on our backup server, and Cris's 
solution works well from the server perspective.  What I don't have as 
good a handle on is when both client and server have multiple interfaces 
and we want backups and restores to go through a secondary interface on 
both client and server.  I don't have a cookbook approach that always 
works, and for many boxes our group doesn't do the administration.  I 
usually end up with a combination of using REQUIRED_INTERFACE in the 
bp.conf, altnames entries so the restores work regardless of which 
interface the requests come through, /etc/hosts or DNS entries and 
client names for the specific interfaces.  But usually the approach is 
to keep trying different things until it works.  If someone has a 
cookbook/checklist they use for this, it would be majorly appreciated!  
Thanks....Gerrit


Cris Rhea wrote:

>>Greetings -
>>
>>I've added a second network interface to my NetBackup Master and Media servers
>>to backup some Windows systems on a common network.  Is there something
>>I can do to make NB server requests to these clients recognized as
>>requests from the NB master?  I only want this second network
>>interface to be used for backups and restores for these specific
>>clients.
>>
>>My Master and Media servers are Solaris 8 running on Sun E450's.
>>
>>
>>--kathy
>>
>>===============================================================================
>>Kathryn Hemness
>>kfhemness AT ucdavis DOT edu
>>    
>>
>
>For the clients that are on the 2nd network, add a second "SERVER = XXX" 
>line to their bp.conf file with the host name of that interface on the 
>master.
>
>For example, my master/media server has two interfaces: One goes to the 
>GbE interface on the router, the other, a 100 MbE interface on the local
>datacenter network.
>
>One of the clients on the local datacenter network has:
>
>SERVER = silage.mayo.edu
>SERVER = silage-138.mayo.edu
>CLIENT_NAME = acsls.mayo.edu
>
>in its bp.conf file.
>
>The rest of the clients (elsewhere on the network), only have:
>
>SERVER = silage.mayo.edu
>CLIENT_NAME = XXXXX.mayo.edu
>
>
>
>
>  
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