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09-26-2007 09:36 AM
I was told by Symantec tech support that we don’t need a remote agent to backup things like Exchange or SharePoint or SQL that are on the same server as Backup Exec but still need an application agent for them. If the application is on the same sever as Backup Exec we do end up with an extra remote agent as an application agent comes with one remote agent. Is this correct?
Also, if we had three servers all running Microsoft SQL server, would that mean that we would get one Backup Exec license, one SQL agent and one remote agent? Backup Exec and the SQL agent being on the first server and it’s free remote agent used on the second and the one remote agent on the third or would you have to buy 3 SQL agents?
09-26-2007 09:43 AM
Also, if we had three servers all running Microsoft SQL server, would that mean that we would get one Backup Exec license, one SQL agent and one remote agent? Backup Exec and the SQL agent being on the first server and it’s free remote agent used on the second and the one remote agent on the third
Each SQL server needs a license, so you would need three SQL serials. Since each SQL license includes a RemoteAgent license, if one SQL server is also going to be the media server, then you would have one Remote Agent license that you could apply to a fourth server
1 BackupExec base serial + 3 SQL serial sounds like what you need
09-26-2007 10:08 AM
That is what I thought but then what is the value of the “free” remote agent? I also wondered if that would extend to a remote server that had more than one server application. If I had an SQL, Exchange and SharePoint agent installed but they were all one remote sever, would that mean I’d have two extra remote agents? Isn’t licensing grand? All this hassle and money and time and licensing just to copy some files. :)
09-26-2007 11:43 AM