Is it possible to specify which network or NIC to use when running a backup?

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ABR11 with Centralized Vault. The Windows 2003 Server I wish to backup has one NIC running at 100Mb connected to the "production" LAN, and a second NIC running at 1Gb connected to a segregated "backup" LAN on another network. Is it possible to specify the gigabit network or NIC to use for the data transfer?

Thu, 09/08/2011 - 16:03
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Are they on different sub-nets? Are the computers that you want to back up on these separate networks ... or are the storage servers on these separate networks?

Thu, 09/08/2011 - 16:25
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The Acronis server which also has the storage node which contains the vault, and the server(s) I want to backup have NICs connected to both the production and backup subnets.

Thu, 09/08/2011 - 18:30
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So in other words ... you are running 2 NICS on each machine for redundancy? It would be great to see a diagram.

Thu, 09/08/2011 - 18:38
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There's no redundancy. 2 separate subnets. The second subnet is used for backup traffic. No diagram necessary.

Is it possible to direct Acronis traffic to a specific subnet?

Thu, 09/08/2011 - 19:04
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That's clearer. By my understanding of your description the only way to do this is to put the storage node(s) only on your backup subnet.
This would require a separate machine. As long as the storage node is visible on your backup subnet, the traffic should take that route.

Thu, 09/08/2011 - 19:11
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I had this situation just now with B&R 11.7
I modified the HOSTS file on my Exchange Server to point itself to the Storage Node's storage VLAN IP address

ex:
172.31.200.1 storageNodeHostName
172.31.200.1 storageNodeHostName.localDomain.local

Running a full job and I am observing traffic on the storage VLAN :)

Fri, 03/11/2016 - 21:47