TSM Client License

[mrcpu1]

Has this been sorted out yet? If our file servers are connecting to our tsm back up server, then our servers are clients in relation to the tsm server itself. Why would I buy a 'server' license for the client now?



Wouldn't I be better off to put a box with windows xp on the network that has access to all the drives on the file server and back everything up through the desktop? With today's dual core desktop/workstations, I don't think I would lose much in performance considering my limiting factors are still the network & the tsm servers capacity to keep up.



Thoughts, comments?

 

[PJ]

From my understanding, a "client" is a machine not backing up network ressources - but fortunatly I don't have to wrestle the license battle and just use the stuff - so I may be wrong.



Anyway. What you propose is possible and we're actually doing it all the time when we're archiving, HSMing and backing up our gawd-only-knows-how-many-processors NAS machines through a single windows box.



Cheers

PJ