fileshare in two jobs -> Double the number of licenses was charged.

[HansMeiser]

Hello,

i have a fileshare of around 2.7T. For testing purposes i play around and try to backup different ways.

Yesterday i ran a job to backup this fileshare to an S3, which was succesful, i laso did some restore-tests. As expected 5 Instancelicences were chared.
After that i created a new job to backup the same fileshare to tape. The job ran also succesful, but to my surprise veeam told me this morning that in total 10 licenced were chared for the two Jobs.
I expected licencecalculations are based on source and not on usage in jobs.
Is this behaviour expected? In licencemanagement the two lines look the same except for one difference, this is just the icon at the beginning of the line which symbolizes the type of job.

Thanks,
Hans

[Mildur]

Hi hans

Yes, expected. It's explained in the help center.

If the same data source is protected with more than one unstructured data backup job, to calculate the size of the protected amount of data Veeam Backup & Replication first sums the size of the source data protected with all the jobs. After that, it rounds the overall protected amount of data down to 500 GB and calculates the number of license instances to consume for the unstructured data backup support.

Best,
Fabian

[HansMeiser]

Hello,

ahh, i see. backup and backup to tape are calculated twice. but a backup copy and backup to tape would be counted as one.

We plan to build an veeam hardend repo server with big storage next years. So it seems it is inevitable to have double licences charged if we plan to store files short-term on hardened repo and additional, short-, middle- and long-termed on tape.
Thanks,
Hans

[Mildur]

Hi Hans,

Thank you for the clarification.
When you say you can’t use Backup to Tape, I assume you’re referring to the limitation with GFS media pools and unstructured data backup to tape, correct?

As a possible workaround, you could try standard media pools instead — configure three media pools for weekly, monthly, and yearly backups. Then create three separate Backup to Tape Jobs and schedule them accordingly (weekly, monthly, and yearly).
GFS support for <unstructured backups to tape> is on our roadmap, but there’s currently no ETA.

Best,
Fabian

[HansMeiser]

Hallo Fabian,

we already do this a similiar way. we have tape-jobs for NDMP-volumes. by powershell we change weekly job-target to different media-pools with different retention times.
We are interested in using backup copy, but how to do this with fileshares? I did not find a tutorial or fitting menudialog in veeam to get this configured.

Thanks,
Hans