Davina Treiber <Davina.Treiber AT PeeVRo.co DOT uk> wrote on 11/19/2009 
04:17:57 
AM:

> MIchael Leone wrote:
> 
> > I added that client under "Recover Storage Nodes". I don't want to add 

> > that tape device to the pools, because I don't want anything backing 
up 
> > onto it. This is a recover only storage node (and, as such, I don't 
need a 
> > license for it .. I am told).
> 
> You may need to add it to the pools if your modus operandi is to
> allocate drives to pools.

My M.O. is to use it only for recovering old savesets. However, I can't 
mount the tape with the savesets on it, unless I add that tape drive to 
the pool. So, effectively, I have to add that drive to every pool I wish 
to recover savesets from, else I can't mount the tape. :-)

> You need a licence for the storage node. 

We were specifically told otherwise, by an EMC rep.

> Although in theory you can
> recover data from NetWorker from an unlicenced server, you are not able
> to control storage nodes or jukeboxes without licences. 

It's not a jukebox, just a standalone drive. And I was able to start a 
recover job from it. Until it started complaining about not being able to 
decode a block from the tape ... Dunno why it's have a blocksize issue; we 
never changed the deafult Windows blocksize on the old SDLT-600 drive that 
made this tape, nor changed it on this new standalone drive we are trying 
to restore from.

> If you don't want to backup to the devices on this storage node, simply
> mark them as read-only.

I think I will do that, thanks.

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