Stand-Alone Drives and Backup Exec 12.5
Updated: 21 May 2010 | 7 comments
Hi there
I would like a clear confirm, that Backup Exec 12.5 doesn't need additional licenses for "unlimited" stand-alone tape drives. I've looked info a earlier post "Backup Exec Tape Library Expansion", where Larry Fine, posts "You may have unlimited stand-alone tape drives". And I just want to be totaly sure about that.
Kind regards
Kim
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RE: Stand-Alone Drives and Backup Exec 12.5
I would like a clear confirm, that Backup Exec 12.5 doesn't need additional licenses for "unlimited" stand-alone tape drives.
You are correct
See http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/252407.htm
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I stand by what I said (not
I stand by what I said (not that my opinion matters), but with one clarification... your server environment (or budget) may not support as many stand-alone drives as you are entitled to :)
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I stand by what I said (not
I stand by what I said (not that my opinion matters), but with one clarification... your server environment (or budget) may not support as many stand-alone drives as you are entitled to :)
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Hi, If you are using a
Hi,
If you are using a single Standalone drive then no additional license.
If you want to have more than one Standalone drivers than you have to installed SCSI card separately for all of them.
Any quereis................
If you want to have more than
If you want to have more than one Standalone drivers than you have to installed SCSI card separately for all of them.
Not true at all. Multiple tape drives may be placed on the same SCSI bus. Tape drives and disk drives should not share a SCSI bus.
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RE: Hi, If you are using a
As Larry says, not at all
The limiting factor is throughput. You can string as many tape devices per SCSI channel as will meet your throughput requirements
It has been a while, but at one time I ran 6 DLT7000s off three dedicated SCSI channels on a PII/400 and all of them could process a job at once with acceptable throughput. Not as fast as a single job at once, perhaps, but I got all my backups done in my window
Another limiting factor might be network topology, depends on what yours looks like
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Hi larry, Multiple tape
Hi larry,
Multiple tape drives may be placed on the same SCSI bus if you have more than one port.
Tape drives and disk drives should not share a SCSI bus: its correct we know that
You can cascade the drives is also one method but license issue could come.
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