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AlGon
Level 6
16 years ago

Netbackup Licence question

Hello. We have a netbackup 6.5.3 Enterprise server environment. We have several media servers backing up a number of clients. Our backup device is a VTL. We duplicate our full backups from the ...
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  • John_Stockard's avatar
    John_Stockard
    16 years ago
    Each client machine where you want to use the FlashBackup backup method would need it's own NetBackup Enterprise Client license.  Confusingly, this license key gets installed on the NetBackup master server, not the NetBackup client machine.

    The NetBackup Enterprise Server license on the media server does not enable the FlashBackup functionality on any client, it only allows you to use the media server to backup other computers.
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John_Stockard
Level 5
16 years ago
Each client machine where you want to use the FlashBackup backup method would need it's own NetBackup Enterprise Client license.  Confusingly, this license key gets installed on the NetBackup master server, not the NetBackup client machine.

The NetBackup Enterprise Server license on the media server does not enable the FlashBackup functionality on any client, it only allows you to use the media server to backup other computers.