Thanks, your correct.
 
You didn't see my second post which immediately followed correcting myself.
(it was stuck in my outbox)
 
Here's right out of the 6.0 p&p guide.(same statement is in the 5.0 and 4.5
guides.)
NetBackup Library Based Tape Drive

NetBackup support for tape drives controlled by a robotic library is
licensed per tape drive; regardless of the manufacturer,

type of device, or number of servers attached to the library. There is no
charge for stand-alone, non-robotic tape drives directly

attached to a NetBackup Master/Media Server or NetBackup Server.

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From: veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Wright, Mike
(IT)
Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 3:47 AM
To: Jimh; Wilkinson, Tim; Richard.Mickle at mwrms.rrd.com;
veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6 & Library Based Tape License


Jim,
 
I think you're getting confused with Backup Exec licensing where more than 1
tape drive per media server requires an additional license. 
 
NBU Enterprise/Data Centre (which is ALL I've ever seen running across 100s
of sites in Europe) allows you to use as many standalone tape drives as you
wish. For library based tape drives you need one Library Based Tape Drive
license PER TAPE DRIVE. If you are sharing tape drives you need one SSO
license PER "physical" TAPE DRIVE.
 
You are correct that backups to DSU are included in the base license.
 
Backups to disk are MORE FLEXIBLE than to tape, hence better for slow
clients, but very few disk arrays/VTLs will match the speed of more than a
handful of LTO3 drives running well into their ATS/streaming speed range
(given clients and infrastructure that can deliver continuous data at the
required rates).
 
Hope that helps.
 
Mike Wright

 

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From: veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Jimh
Sent: 12 July 2006 22:38
To: 'Wilkinson, Tim'; Richard.Mickle at mwrms.rrd.com;
veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6 & Library Based Tape License


One standalone tape license comes with the mediaserver.
A standalone tape license is the same license as for a Tape Library."Library
Based Tape License"
You can run your backups to disk for free.
I can argue that disk is better than tape.(though not cheaper yet)
 
There are a lot of misconfigured configurations do to reseller ignorance(In
the past licensing was not strictly enforced)
Also Symantec/Veritas has not always configured a system correctly.
 
If you run without a correct license it will catch up with you or your
organization.(hopefully you have retired)
 
Jim
 

-----Original Message-----
From: veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Wilkinson,
Tim
Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2006 7:14 PM
To: Richard.Mickle at mwrms.rrd.com; veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6 & Library Based Tape License


Is it just a licnesing thing or does it add any actual value to NBU?

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From: Richard.Mickle at mwrms.rrd.com [mailto:Richard.Mickle at mwrms.rrd.com]
Sent: Tue 11/07/2006 11:42 PM
To: veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Cc: Wilkinson, Tim
Subject: RE:NBU 6 & Library Based Tape License



Tim, 

The License Key "Library Based Tape License" may not be needed to run
NetBackup, but it is a legal requirement to be properly licensed for it if
you use a tape library of any kind.  There may be a different license for
stand alone tape drives, I am not sure about this.  It is my understanding
that you need 1 license for every tape drive you want to use. 


>Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 10:52:06 +1000
>From: "Wilkinson, Tim" <Tim.Wilkinson at dsto.defence.gov.au>
>Subject: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6 & Library Based Tape License
>To: <veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu>
>
>Hi,
> 
>I've asked a few people about this but never had what I'd call a complete
answer (I've been quoted from the admin >guide but it's not hugely helpful
as I've already read this and doesn't answer my question) so hopefully
someone >knows a bit more about this on this mailing list.
>We have NBU 6 (Ent) and have a license key for a 'Library Based Tape
License'. We use robotic tape libraries (SL500 >among others) but have never
added the LBT license and it all runs fine so the question is what is this
license >actually required for? Is it perhaps a legacy thing?
> 
>Cheers,
> 
>Tim 

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