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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I
  3. Section II. Configuring hosts
  4. Configuring Host Properties
  5. Preferred Network properties
  6. Configuration to prefer a specified address
Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I

Configuration to prefer a specified address

Figure: Match network selection with the source shows a configuration that makes NetBackup prefer to use one range of destination addresses over others that might be available.

Other available destination addresses will only be used if one of the following is true:

  • No destination address exists that is in this range, or

  • A Match is specified for those addresses using a larger subnet mask, or

  • A Match is specified for those addresses with a same length subnet mask and the address is ordered above this directive.

A Prohibited directive can be used to prevent the use of an address within this range. The Prohibited directive would need either a longer subnet mask, or a subnet mask of equal length with the Prohibited directive ordered above the Match directive. Additional Match directives may be used to indicate the additional backup networks that are allowed.

Figure: Match network selection with the source

Match network selection with the source

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