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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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Integrity control for stored datas on vsnap

Set up an integrity check to validate that the data that was copied to the vsnap server are valid.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Restore by Tag

Hello, in case we want to restore a lot of server we must do it by rest api or by clic one per one each vms we want restore. It very painfull to do that. It would be great to restore using tag. If my environnement is balised with tags I should abl...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Restore a VM without choose a specific /site/repository/archive cloud /etc

Hello support, We created 2 policy (SLA_site1 / SLA_site2 ) that we affected to Datastores on each site . So VM can be on the policy SLA_SITE1 or SLA_SITE2 depending of their location when we backup them. Now we want to restore a backup from a spe...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Restoring deleted data on Object Storage

We provide datacenter and data protection service over Spectrum Protect Plus to our customers.We also provide cloud service over Zadara, added Zadara as S3 compatible on Spectrum Protect Plus. Zadara has a feature that enables us to restore a dele...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Future consideration

SCDM notify on failure only

SCDM should have an option to send notification emails on job failures only instead of for every result. I don't really need an email for a successful job.
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SCDM should support daylight savings time

SCDM should support daylight savings time
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Copy Data Management: integrated data masking is not available with virtual servers

The data masking feature is not supported with virtual servers, only physical servers.
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Copy Data Management should be able individually rename target filesystems

SCDM can add a prefix, suffix, or replace a string when changing target filesystem names. It would be useful to have a one to one mapping of the source and targets to be renamed as an additional option.
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Data Copy Management should be able to disable archive log mode on the target

SCDM should be able to bring up a target database and take it out of archive log mode. Most users do not run test copies of their databases in archive log mode.
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Copy Data Management should update /etc/fstab

SCDM should automatically update /etc/fstab on linux targets when it mounts replicated filesystems and also remove them when unmounting them. Then filesystems will automatically be mounted if the target system reboots.
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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