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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. Order of directive processing in the Preferred Network properties
Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I

Order of directive processing in the Preferred Network properties

NetBackup sorts all directives into decreasing order by the Target subnet length so that the more specific network specifications, such as complete host names or IP addresses, match first. (For example, a Target with a /24 subnet is processed before a Target with a /16 subnet.) In this way, NetBackup can honor host-specific overrides.

If multiple directives have the same length subnet, NetBackup looks at the order in which the directives are listed.

Use the up or down arrows to the right of the list to change the order of the directives.

NetBackup processes each resolved destination address and each prospective source address relative to the directives. Directives that contain addresses that do not apply to either host are ignored.

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