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Victor_Mak
Level 3
10 years ago

question about netbackup deduplication license

Hello guys, I got confuse about the netbackup deduplication license. Current, our production enviornment running netbackup deduplication options with follow license: SYMC NETBACKUP ENTERPRISE S...
  • Marianne's avatar
    10 years ago
    The dedupe license is for the amount of client data you backup - the equivalent of one full backup on all of the clients. So, nothing to do with the size of the dedupe volume or the amount of full and incremental backups stored on the dedupe volume. Symantec calls this 'Front end' capacity license. The only way to really confirm what you are licensed for is your license key certificate. The actual FET (front end terabyte) amount is not stored on the server.
  • RiaanBadenhorst's avatar
    10 years ago

    Yes, FETB refers to the data that lies on the front end, not the backend storage devices. It is a trust license as all Symantec NetBackuplicenses are.