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Backup Exec 2010 R2 Deduplication Licensing

Philip_D
Level 5

Regarding licensing for the deduplication option on Backup Exec 2010 R2:  if you do client side dedupe, do you need a dedupe license for every client?

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teiva-boy
Level 6

The dedupe license is all encompassing, for both client and media server dedupe.  It is licensed PER media server.

So you buy your media server license, your remote agents, your application agents (if applicable) and then add the SINGLE dedupe license.  

But again, it's licensed per media server, and if you were going to replicate data between media servers, you would need two media server licenses, and two dedupe licenses.  Or if you wanted to backup to a deduplication appliance and wanted to leverage the OST technology, you will need the Dedupe license as well.

 

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AmolB
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You just need the Remote agent license per client.

Philip_D
Level 5

Very interesting.  I hope you are correct.  Can anyone else back this up?

teiva-boy
Level 6

The dedupe license is all encompassing, for both client and media server dedupe.  It is licensed PER media server.

So you buy your media server license, your remote agents, your application agents (if applicable) and then add the SINGLE dedupe license.  

But again, it's licensed per media server, and if you were going to replicate data between media servers, you would need two media server licenses, and two dedupe licenses.  Or if you wanted to backup to a deduplication appliance and wanted to leverage the OST technology, you will need the Dedupe license as well.

 

teiva-boy
Level 6

To add to my previous post.  Even with NetBackup you are not licensing deduplication on a per-client basis either.  It's based on capacity.  Too much to go into in this forum, but even in the enterprise space, it's not per client.