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goodierocks's avatar
goodierocks
Level 2
11 years ago

Per Terabyte licensing

Hi

Newbie to this site, i was trying to find the answer to the following question. I have 2 x 5220 appliances. I am backing up 2tb with ddup. I am licensed for 4tb in total. with my retention policy i am running low on space. is the license for the size of data being backed e.g the server data size or is it the data stored on the appliances.

If my server has 1.8tb of data and i back that up twice using full backup that would be 3.6tb on stored data on appliance what licence do i need, 1.8tb or 3.6tb

Backup and Recovery
NetBackup
Windows Server (2003-2008)
  • Marianne's avatar
    Marianne
    11 years ago

    You license capacity that exist on your clients.
    In other words, the equivalent of one full backup of all your clients.

    You license per TB. So, for 1.8TB on your clients, you need to license 2TB.

    Even if you backup the 1.8TB a hundred times, you still need to license 2 TB.

  • Jim-90's avatar
    Jim-90
    Level 6
    11 years ago

    To get spreadsheet on your capacity license status run:

    nbdeployutil --gather --capacity

    Followed by

    nbdeployutil --report <file generated by the previous command>

    probably best to give the absolute path name of the file.

     

  • Marianne's avatar
    Marianne
    Level 6
    11 years ago

    You license capacity that exist on your clients.
    In other words, the equivalent of one full backup of all your clients.

    You license per TB. So, for 1.8TB on your clients, you need to license 2TB.

    Even if you backup the 1.8TB a hundred times, you still need to license 2 TB.