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Defender Data Protect/Replica

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Allow sources, policies, protection groups, etc. to be organized in a matter 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...
1 day ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 1 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...
7 days ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 1 Submitted

IBM Defender Alert Notifications limitation with 20 objects in an Email

our backup failure alerts are being turned into incidents based on the Defender notification email settings. Ideally, each server failure within a protection group should generate a separate incident in ServiceNow. However, it appears Defender’s a...
16 days ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Submitted

Implementing purging algorithms

Protection > Recoveries view will not be purged, only some detail information for recovery tasks older than a month.
3 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Submitted

Add an option to quorum groups

We need to add the ability to select specific users for each rule to the quorum, not just the entire cluster. For example, we want to add a rule to restore VMs and Virtual Disks to a specific user group, not the entire cluster.
5 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Submitted

Add support for Data Protect to Archive to Google "Archive" Tier

Lowers cost for long-term retention of data.
5 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 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...
5 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Submitted

Defender Data Protect (DDP) Configuration Backup

Why is it useful? A DDP configuration backup is essential for quick recovery and business continuity in isolated environments without a remote cluster. Without it, a DDP server failure means manual re-configuration and re-onboarding, leading to si...
7 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 2 Needs more information

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...
7 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...
7 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Under review