This was indeed the way initial licensing has been defined with NW 7.x.
Lately this has been relived and you can have some/few file systems
that will sum up to your license.
The disk backup licenses have also been made stackable. This means that
if you need 2TB you can use 2 1TB licenses.
Itzik

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Legato NetWorker discussion 
> [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On Behalf Of Joel Fisher
> Sent: Monday, January 03, 2005 22:28
> To: NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: [Networker] Fwd: File devices and advanced file devices
> 
> From the way it has been explained to me you can have one 
> physically array(or internal disk with up to 1 TB.  So you 
> can't take say 500Tb from and Nexsan array mix it with 500TB 
> from a Clariion array with the same license.  This is how it 
> was explained to me by our VAR.  We're still on 6.x so I 
> can't confirm one way or the other.
> 
> Later.
> 
> Joel
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Maarten Boot (CWEU-USERS/CWNL)
> [mailto:maarten.boot AT NL.COMPUWARE DOT COM]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 8:17 AM
> To: NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU
> Subject: [Networker] Fwd: File devices and advanced file devices
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Due to slow laptop backups 450 kB/s and LTO-2 drives I want 
> to backup to disk for those. Running Networker 7 on solaris 8.
> 
> Disks added but creating a file type device needs a license.
> 
> Question: I found the ceapest license DiskBackup Option Tier 
> 1; less than 1  Tb which will do for me and costs approx 2000 
> Euro (enduser).
> 
> Will that also enable advanced file devices or is that a 
> separate license
> 
> Maarten
> 
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