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    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...
    1 day ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Submitted

    Identify nodes having open files which blocks quiesce file system/filesets

    We had the situation that the unlink fileset command failed: [root@xstm-d07-01 samples]# mmunlinkfileset exa_project1 training2601 -f Unable to quiesce fileset at all nodes. Fileset training2601 has open files. Specify -f to force unlink. mmunlink...
    about 15 hours ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    SnapDiff-Support for ONTAP 9.18

    Could you please add Snapdiff support for ONTAP version 9.17 and 9.18? https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/154613
    1 day ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Planned for future release

    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.
    8 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Submitted

    Import the data from tape and sequential volumes, written from other IBM Storage Protect servers

    Why is it useful? This feature will help with restoring/retrieving data from the tapes, which may have expired in database and also if the tapes are owned/written by other SP server. Who will benefit from it? This feature will help in DR tests, wh...
    10 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Policy Based High Availability: send Warning Event Notification already if the first of two IP Quorum instances in a Partition gets unavailable.

    IBM recommends to configure at PBHA solutions for each HA Partition a second IP quorum as a backup for situations where theprimary quorum fails or requires maintenance. As of today the FlashSystem sends a Warning Event Notification as soon as the ...
    about 1 month ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

    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...
    4 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Submitted

    Improve handling of Snapshot (hidden FCMap in stopping state) cleanup

    Currently, there isn't much to indicate that a FlashSystem is having a hard time doing it's VolumeGroup Snapshot cleanup. If you look at the VG in the GUI, you'll see that the count of snapshots is greater than the number of snapshots that are act...
    about 6 hours ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

    Track Thermal Throttling on Drives

    We recently had a performance issue, that IBM support was able to track back to thermal throttling on a drive based on data from a Snap-4. Would it be possible to track this information in events so that we could have an insight into how frequentl...
    about 6 hours ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

    Add Iogrp Memory (FlashCopy, Replication, Mirror) as a Capacity item, tracked over time

    The Iogrp memory is a limited resource on the flash system (I understand it will continue to be even once memory paging is added), that impacts the system's ability to do basic functions, like taking a snapshot. We should track this over time, so ...
    about 8 hours ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

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