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Defender Data Protect/Replica

one or few click retry of failed objects on protection group

Makes day-to-day administration of backups easier and increase overall success rate of backups
about 8 hours ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica Submitted

Improve display and reporting for SAN based backups of IBM Flash arrays

The SAN based backup identifies a disk pool to be protected. The disk pool consists of several disk volumes (18 in our case). Currently the UI shows the backup of this in a protection group and all 18 volumes are backed up as a part of the protect...
15 days ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica Submitted

Alert on increasing garbage data and/or failed or ineffectual garbage collection

The Defender Data Protect version 7.3.1 will send alerts for pipelines that fail to complete, but the underlying cause of increased garbage and/or ineffectual garbage collection does not generate an alert. This means that the alerts that do trigge...
14 days ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica Submitted

Enable Full Export and Correlation of Affected Files and Alerts in DMS Anti-Ransomware UI

Currently, when an anomaly or ransomware detection event occurs within the DMS Security Anti-Ransomware interface, the “Affected Files” page does not provide a supported mechanism to export or download the complete list of affected files. At this ...
2 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica Submitted

S3 bucket backup in Defender Data Protect urgently needs optimization to be usable in an environment with multiple buckets on the same endpoint.

Defender Data Protect allows you to add an S3-compatible source to back up S3 buckets; however, the implementation is flawed and hinders the backup process in several ways. For instance, an endpoint can only be added once with a single user; it is...
23 days ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica Submitted

Provide incremental backup capabilities from DDP to S3 Glacier target

Idea: Enable Defender Data Protect (DDP) to perform incremental backups directly to S3 Glacier-based tape storage targets such as IBM Storage Protect (SP) S3 storage agent and IBM Deep Archive on Diamondback. Business Use Case: While Defender Data...
11 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica Submitted

Allow sources, policies, protection groups, etc. to be organized in a manner other than source type.

Currently, as sources are defined, the way the information is displayed is by the type of source. So, all vSphere, SAN, SQL sources are displayed with the same type. This makes it difficult to find sources in a way meaningful to the operator. Idea...
5 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica Submitted

Add the option to delete a description previously created

Add the option to delete a description that was previously created when selecting an alert to resolve, since some descriptions may no longer apply or simply need to be removed. It would be great to also have the ability to delete any description t...
5 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica Submitted

Create tree view, persistent filters, or other technique to organize and sort protection groups and recovery jobs

The data protection groups currently are all in a single view in the GUI. There are filters that do a plausible job, but the filter settings are frequently reset. Having a way to organize and filter the information in these views would make the pr...
about 1 month ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica Submitted

allow a human-friendly label for backup sources

Currently when defining a source for backup, the name of the source can be rather complex and not user friendly. This will vary depending upon the source type, but in some cases (such as Azure backup workloads), the source name is just a large com...
6 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica Submitted

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