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My ideas: Defender Data Protect/Replica

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Provide incremental backup capabilities from DDP to S3 Glacier target

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 Prote...
5 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Under review

Enable file and folder-level recovery of objects from AIX systems archived on IBM Storage Protect by using the IBM Storage Defender Data Protect object agent S3 interface

Currently, file and folder-level recovery from tape-based S3-compatible storage is unsupported when IBM Storage Defender Data Protect archives AIX objects to IBM Storage Protect using its S3 tape storage interface. We request an enhancement to the...
6 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Under review

Defender Data Protect - File/Folder-level recovery of AIX file-based backups from tape-based external targets IBM Storage Protect

Current Limitation: Currently, file-level recovery from tape-based S3-compatible storage is either unsupported when IBM Storage Defender Data Protect archive AIX objects using IBM Storage Protect. We request an enhancement of IBM Storage Defender ...
6 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Under review

Reduce the requirements for Microsoft Exchange

Some other backup solutions doesn't need the whole admin rights for Exchange. Example VEEAM: https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/required_permissions.html?zoom_highlight=exchange&ver=120 Commvault: https://documentation.commvault....
8 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Under review

add full DB2 Backup and Restore support to DDP

we use DDP for VMware, AD, MS SQL, Container, Mongo DB, physical server, clusters and as an S3 target for all applications without agent support or embedded S3 support. Our biggest workload, IBM DB2, is the only application still on ISP. That make...
5 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Under review

Defender Data Protect support for OpenStack

Defender Data Protect currently lacks support for backup and restore of OpenStack environments that are commonly in use with many MSPs and large clients and Defender Data Protect needs to provide native backup/restore capabilities for this environ...
8 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Under review

Adding multipath support for FC backup

One of our customers has Cohesity cluster (12 nodes - Dell PowerEdge 760XL). Each server has 1 HBA (32Gb) with 2 ports and it`s connected to 2 Cisco switches (according to Cohesity recommendations). The problem is all my 12 nodes working through 1...
9 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Under review

Add GKLM Protection and Overview to Defender

The GKLM Installation is critical for some Defender Installations because it provides the keys to encrypt tape and disk storage used in Defender. It should be seen in Defender as Ressource and Data Protect should be able to protect the instance.
7 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Under review

Data Protect as part of IBM Storage Defender and improvement for cluster-failover

Assume there are two Data Protect Clusters in metro-distance (<30km). Both clusters are loosely coupled only. Just backup data itself are mirrored asynchronously, but no meta-data. What are the issues with that? As a consequence, in case of a f...
over 1 year ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Under review

Please add ability to select individual VMDKs for inclusion, excluding all unselected VMDKs

When configuring a Protection Group with a standardized configuration of the OS partition being on HDISK1, it is easier to select that one VMDK for inclusion rather than have to exclude all other VMDKs. Over time, VM configurations may change and ...
over 1 year ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Under review