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Search results: Storage Protect Family

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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).

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

TSM for VE needs better VM selection/filtering mechanisms.

When creating a new backup schedule in the TSM for VE plugin in VMware (v 6.4.0.1), the user's options for selecting VM's to be backed up are severely limited. The first limitation is the view by host or datastore. If you want to backup particular...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 4 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

TSM V6: Show Us the Tables, Please

Please expose to the SELECT command in TSM V6 (and later, if any) all of the internal tables that TSM uses, with exceptions for things like passwords and other sensitive information.
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 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

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

Move TSM DB2 tempspace to a separate filesystem

TSM can crash unexpectedly. The DB2 logs indicated that the tempspace ran out of space due to heavy SQL transaction, suspected at the time to be a custom data collection script for TSM monitoring, although not confirmed. This can now be reproduced...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 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.

TDP agent Exchange 2010 DAG awareness

1. TDP agent aware of all the nodes in the DAG cluster so that they would be visible from any TDP agent GUI in the cluster. 2. TDP agent acts as the conductor on DAG setups when performing backup so backups can be started in parallel on each windo...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 5 Delivered