Version: 2.7

Apply Portworx Backup Licenses

Portworx Backup offers both node-count and node-hour based licenses.

The following table provides an overview of various license types Portworx Backup offers to its users:

License Type	Description
Enterprise	A node-count and node-hour based license which allows the users to create, restore, schedule, and delete the backups of the applications along with their data, add nodes, and clusters.
Air-gapped metering	Users can avail the benefits of usage-based licensing in air-gapped environments that depends on node-count or node-hour along with other enterprise version functionalities.
Trial	Provides enterprise version functionalities with a time limit (30-days) and node limit (1000 nodes).

The following topics explain management of various types of licenses offered by Portworx Backup:

📄️ Manage licenses

This topic explains how users can manage their licenses for Portworx Backup, including the process for importing different types of licenses

Explains how users in air-gapped environments (isolated from the internet) can activate a usage-based metering license for Portworx Backup.

This topic explains how to label nodes as non-backup nodes in Portworx Backup to exclude them from the licensing count.