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March 16th, 2011 03:00
What will happen when 2 servers attempt to run backups on a client simultaneously
I would like to allow 2 different backup servers to backup a particular Windows 2003 client server.
Networker server 1 would back up drives G:, H:
Networker server 2 would backup up drive I:
So far, straightforward. However I'm unsure what would happen if the a backup from Networker server 2 attempted to start when a Networker server 1 backup was already running? Same client but discrete filesystems.
Would it run successfully, simply fail to start or would the results be unpredictable?
Versions:
Networker server 1 - v7.6
Networker server 2 - v7.5
Client - v7.5
Regards
Ewan
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March 16th, 2011 03:00
Never tried this, but I think it would run (but you would see for sure a bit of more CPU usage on client and overall backup speed would drop). If this is VSS based backup it might potentially have problems as with VSS you do not wish to have more than 2 sessions running (despite all those patches by MS).
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March 22nd, 2011 10:00
Thanks Hrvoje.
I'll put an update on here once firewall rules have been changed and I can test it properly.
Ewan