On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 10:10:08AM -0400, Stan Horwitz wrote:
> On Oct 27, 2005, at 9:38 AM, Per Kristiansen wrote:
>
> >I'm about to introduce a SAN system into my mix of ulcer creating
> >devices.
> >
> >And it struck me..will I need extra licenses to back up this SAN ?
> >
> >In the beginning, 2 Linux based fileservers will be the only
> >servers using the SAN.
> >and since I have linux licences for the networker I should be
> >okay..right ?
>
> It depends on how you access the san on those two Linux servers and
> how you intend to back it up.
> If you just treat the SAN as a mount point on each Linux box that
> gets mounted upon startup, what
> you think is right on target. If you want to get fancy and connect
> your SAN to a tape library and back
> it up as a whole entity, you're looking at additional licensing.
Well I do have wet dreams about doing that in the future :)..
but will be just backing up the mount points..so no nasty suprises waiting for
me
then...thanks all :)
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Per Kristiansen
per AT gathering DOT org
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