On a system that has two NICs installed, the Backup to Network job sends data to a non-specified NIC during the backup.

Document ID: 253898
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The traffic that is seen on the non-specified network interface card (NIC) is the "control" connection for the backup. When the VERITAS Backup Exec Remote Agent queries the network, it binds to the first available NIC. As the first available card may not be the one specified in the Backup to Network Job, this does not ensure data isolation to the specified network.

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Supplemental Material:

System: Ref.#	Description
Europa: 2064895	Backup Control Connection does not follow Backup To Network Card Data Isolation.

Products Applied:
Backup Exec for Windows Servers 9.0

Last Updated: January 27 2003 12:46 AM GMT
Expires on: 365 days from publish date

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