Even though UltraBac's pricing significantly favors buying UBDR Gold Stand-Alone licenses, some customers and resellers buy a Single Server Edition and then the "X" number of Integrated Gold licenses they need in order to reduce costs.

Licensing Example Scenario:

A customer has a network containing 10 servers, and they would like the protection of image-based disaster recovery on every machine. If the customer bought 10 UBDR Gold Stand-Alone licenses, each server would have its own protection and would be independent of the other nine servers. In fact, since each server would have a backup engine, the customer could even schedule backups to remote tape devices on any of the licensed machines. This scenario offers complete redundancy of operation for the 10 servers with remote tape backup/restore as an option.

If the customer bought 10 UBDR Gold Integrated licenses instead, a copy of UltraBac Single Server Edition would also be required. The UB-SS license (with it's single backup engine) would schedule and backup each of the 10 machines. Going with the integrated option eliminates the option of remote tape backup/restore and the redundant operation that Stand-Alone offers.

A critical difference to consider between Stand-Alone and a UB-SS license configured to backup remote servers licensed with Integrated Image only is that the latter does not insulate an organization against a single point of failure that could cause all backups to fail.

The purpose behind creating an Integrated Image license was to allow customers with existing UltraBac backup licenses to more economically buy a copy of UBDR Pro/Gold by eliminating a second, and unnecessary, backup engine for the same machine. It was not to offer a small savings to customers wanting to backup some number of servers through a single backup license like in the example above.