I forgot you also need this in exchange, sql, rman or whatever backups are going from that server.

Best regards Otto

Hi

when I was working as an administrator used to do it this way.

in the Backup Command line i put: save -c servername  (f.ex. exchange.company.com)

This eliminated the IP in the Alias.

Best regards Otto

Hi Ottov,

This is used to force the indexes to be written to the particular client name, specified in the backup command. Mostly done in the case of cluster/virtual names.

Hi

anyways this worked if I remember correctly. We didn't use the IP in aliases.

Best regards Otto

Maybe I confusing this with when we had to create clients with the IP name instead of FQDN. I am not sure really . Its been awhile since I worked with this.

Otto

I am talking about for scheduled backups, configuring a client at the server in the Globals1 tab.  Using save -c hostname at client simply will force Networker to put the indexes in a specific location while running a manual backup which is something different!

It would be nice of someone from EMC could give an official line on this one - whilst those in the know seem to say it is not good practice to do so it is not clear why that is the case.

David

Hi

I rest my case. I was dumping from an old memory here, thought it might help

But anyways the best way is always avoid IP in aliases by proper configuration of DNS.