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Search results: IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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allow SPP to intelligent selection for VADP transport mode

testing has shown that if using a virtual VADP proxy, the HotAdd transport is good for large amounts of data transfer, but NBD is better for smaller data transfers since there is a small amount of time spent establishing HotAdd. It would be good t...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Select which management class for offload backup is used.

When making backup jobs we want to select which management class the spectrum protect for VE datamover must use for offload backups. We need the option to have different retentions requirements for long term storage on the spectrum protect server....
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Delete a single VM or data backup in SPP

30 Aug 2018 11:57 AM Mike, I would recommend opening an RFE and requesting this functionality. Robert[Less]30 Aug 2018 11:57 AMrobertsd (IBM) changed Status from Waiting for IBM to Awaiting your feedback.30 Aug 2018 11:49 AMMike Swartz (Customer) ...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Manually running cloud offload per VM

Spectrum Protect Plus allows us to run VM backups manually by selecting the VM and clicking the "run" button.When we want run replication or offload we need to run the schedule.We should be able run run replication or offload jobs per VM manually ...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration