AlGon
16 years agoLevel 6
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 VTL to physical tape over the weekend.
A lot of our setup was implemented by a 3rd party so I’m not overly familiar with the Licencing requirements so please bear with me.
I would like to add another media server to help deal with the increasing amount of servers we are moving over to netbackup from backup exec.
Will I need to buy a Netbackup Enterprise Server licence for this media server?
If I want to use Flashbackup to backup specific clients from this media server will I need an Enterprise Client Licence as well as the Enterprise server licence?
If this server was to only backup itself would I only need a Netbackup Enterprise client licence (So this server would then be a SAN media server)?
Cheers
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 VTL to physical tape over the weekend.
A lot of our setup was implemented by a 3rd party so I’m not overly familiar with the Licencing requirements so please bear with me.
I would like to add another media server to help deal with the increasing amount of servers we are moving over to netbackup from backup exec.
Will I need to buy a Netbackup Enterprise Server licence for this media server?
If I want to use Flashbackup to backup specific clients from this media server will I need an Enterprise Client Licence as well as the Enterprise server licence?
If this server was to only backup itself would I only need a Netbackup Enterprise client licence (So this server would then be a SAN media server)?
Cheers
- 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.