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Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client)

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    Expose file ownership (UID/GID) and permissions in dsmc query backup to enable self-service restores

    We are using `mmbackup` to back up large IBM Storage Scale (GPFS) file systems that are shared by thousands of users.Our goal is to offer self-service restores using `dsmc` while ensuring that users can only restore files they have POSIX-Access to...
    9 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Submitted

    make the ba-client scan a _single filesystem_ for new/changed/deleted files/dirs via parallel threads

    question: when will the ba-client be able to search through a _single filesystem_ for new/changed/deleted files/dirs via parallel threads? this feature is standard among most of ba-clients competitors and customers are asking for this frequently.
    13 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Submitted

    Predictable handling of encrypted EXT4 directories on Linux

    For now the error when accessing an encrypted EXT4 directory by the backup client can be ignored by a setting in dsm.sys (see support case). But this leads to the effect, that an encrypted directory will be considered in a backup if the encryption...
    18 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Submitted

    adjust installation scripts to work with DNF and the new path for the ln binary

    For a while now (since Red Hat 7?) DNF has been the preferred way to install and manage packages on Red Hat systems. The TSM client documents explicitly say RPM should be used. With Red Hat 10 the path to the file link command (ln) changed and DNF...
    about 2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Submitted

    IBM Storage Protect Client Installation/upgrade in Windows environment Windows System should not reboot to take effect

    This is regarding a customer query related to the IBM Storage Protect BA Client on the Windows platform. When an end user installs or performs a version upgrade of the Storage Protect BA Client, the installation process currently triggers a Window...
    2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Submitted

    Allow Backup-Archive Client on Windows 11 Environment with Cloud Only (Azure) users

    As stated from IBM Support, Azure Users are not supported: Currently, the Spectrum Protect (TSM) Backup-Archive Client fails to run on Windows 11 if the cloud only user (Azure) is not a local administrator, even when added to the "Backup Operators...
    3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Submitted

    Please increase the maximum value for the -tcpw option

    The -tcpw option of the SP BA client allows to set the send buffer size but unfortunately only to a maximum of 2048 kB. In our use case (backup over WAN with RTT=9.73ms) we get a transfer rate of only 200MiB/s with this maximum (see ticket TS02029...
    5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Submitted

    AIX Client install move the Client Acceptor Daemon (dsmcad) from Web Client package to the base package.

    In our environment we don't use the Web Client, but we need the CAD to run the scheduler, moving this to the base package would mean one less package to install. We noticed that dsmcad is required to run the webclient, but the webclient is not req...
    7 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Submitted

    dsmadmc login prompt when using MFA

    When logging in to dsmadmc having MFA activated on the account you do not get any indication on the password prompt that this is active. Suggestion either have a message that you need to enter password plus mfa code Or Rather Present the mfa passw...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Submitted

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