Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume II
- NetBackup licensing models and the nbdeployutil utility
- About NetBackup licensing models
- nbdeployutil utility options
- Creating and viewing the licensing report
- After creating a traditional licensing report
- After creating a capacity licensing report
- Reconciling the capacity licensing report results
- Additional configuration
- About dynamic host name and IP addressing
- About busy file processing on UNIX clients
- About the Shared Storage Option
- About configuring the Shared Storage Option in NetBackup
- Viewing SSO summary reports
- About the vm.conf configuration file
- Holds Management
- Menu user interfaces on UNIX
- About the tpconfig device configuration utility
- About the NetBackup Disk Configuration Utility
- Reference topics
- Host name rules
- About reading backup images with nbtar or tar32.exe
- Factors that affect backup time
- NetBackup notify scripts
- Media and device management best practices
- About TapeAlert
- About tape drive cleaning
- How NetBackup reserves drives
- About SCSI persistent reserve
- About the SPC-2 SCSI reserve process
- About checking for data loss
- About checking for tape and driver configuration errors
- How NetBackup selects media
- About Tape I/O commands on UNIX
Reconciling the capacity licensing report results
After reviewing the resulting spreadsheet you can either:
Accept the generated information without changes as the basis for license charges.
Make changes and note the reason for the change.
As you make changes to the spreadsheet assess when any additional changes are no longer meaningful. Since licensing charges are assessed on a per terabyte basis, it may not be beneficial to dispute charges for a few gigabytes of information. You may want to sort the clients by their backup size and focus on the largest backups first. Sorting by backup size provides two benefits. First, your efforts are initially focused on the largest clients. Second, if there are clients backing up only a few kilobytes, these backups may not capture the correct information. You may have important data which is unprotected.