LHradowy wrote:
> "Emmanuel Florac" <eflorac@imaginet.fr> wrote in message
> newsan.2005.01.06.21.01.23.669444@imaginet.fr...
>>Le Thu, 06 Jan 2005 12:18:03 -0600, LHradowy a écrit :

>>>Is it possible to have a system (running netbackup, the veritas client) and
>>>collect data from another server, and push all the data to the veritas
>>>backup server.

>>It may be somewhat possible, but don't expect to be able to restore
>>properly a complete system this way though...

> I have tested, and it does work, with each server having its own tarred
> file. I need to know about the legalities...

Sounds like you are copying data from a non-client to a client then
using veritas to copy that. There should be no problem with that,
it's within the licensing restrictions. We used to do it a simpler
way - using NFS. Veritas will back up NFS mounted partitions on
clients (or directly mounted on the server). Veritas sell you
a license which restricts the number of clients you run their
software on - there's no limit to how many machines then have NFS
directories mounted on those clients which are all backed up.

Backup software companies are one of the few catagories of
companies who get away with gouging the customers. You pay
more for running the software on a UNIX box (as they expect
you'll be backing up more), you pay more to back up to a larger
jukebox (or to a bigger version of the same jukebox), you pay
more for each client you want to back up etc. etc. I've
wondered for a while how they get away with it but they still
seem to.

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