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Search results: Storage Protect Family

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Spectrum Protect server should be able to display what clients are sending 'pre-deduplicated' data

either in operations center, or with a simple select statement, it should be possible to display if a client is actually sending deduplicated data to the Spectrum protect server.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Delivered

retenrule with individual filespaces

The new feature retention rule does not allow to define individual filespaces for an BA/aR Client.This parameter is only supported for vm backups.The feature retention rule / retention sets should be an alternative to the backupsets.The backupset ...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

SP+ Syslog alerting

Please add an ability to have events sent via syslog messages to external receivers. There should be an ability to include select informational events for login/logout security auditing as well as backup and restore events.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 4 Delivered

Allow selection of vm backup or resore in the web gui via vmware cluster (without showing individual vmware hosts)

TSM4VE does not currently allow viewing of VMs to select for backup or restore via VM Cluster only (without hosts). Viewing VMs to backup or restore via host is very difficult to work with in large corporate environments.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Delivered

enhanced charging to support compressed/uncompress volume

Today:- It is possible to measure data on different levels on the TSM Server- SELECT * FROM FILESPACES Can be used to see the allocated and used space on filesystems on the clients But does not give correct results on databases, as both CAPACITY a...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Delivered

Enhanced VM excludes for TSM for VE

Enhancement to TSM for VE set up to allow an include/exclude file for selective exclusion / inclusion of VMs from backup (similar to BAClient model).
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 6 Delivered

TDP SQL Proxy Error on LEGCAY operations

The tdpsqlc Query SQL operation errors with an ANS1532E (RC5722) Proxy Rejected error even though the config is set for LEGACY backups/restores which do not use VSS and the proxy configuration.If the operation is using the LEGCAY method, then the ...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Delivered

Incorporation of a way to change the priority of volume selection while restoring data

There is no way to change the priority of volume selection while restoring data in current TSM release.The customer would like to specify explicitly the priority of volume selection when restoring data.
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

VM search when restoring - tsm for ve plugin/site

A way to search or select a vm to restore once you click on "initiate a restore" _without_ specifying a host.
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Delivered

DOMAIN option to use with selective backup and archive

The TSM client option "DOMAIN" should be applicable for Selective backup and Archives.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Delivered

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