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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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SPP: Extend Retention period for existing backup

SPP: Extend Retention period for existing backupWe need an option to change expiration date for already taken backup to desired value. For example to change it to expire in 1 year instead of 1 month with which it was taken.
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Linux VM filesystem backup/restore via SPP

We need to be able to protect filesystems and files on Linux VMs through SPP.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus - G Suite support needed

We need local backup for ours users who has been migrate from Domino to G Suite.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Enable SPP Oracle log backup logging

While roll forwarding a oracle DB when restoring, the restore suddenly stopped, because a log file was not provided. Unfortunately, in the logs for the log backup to vSnap, you cannot see which log files were backed up and if everything was succes...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Running jobs on an SLA consecutively

Spectrum Protect Plus allows us to run all jobs on a schedule. When replicating, copying or archiving a backup data we need to set a time to the job.But sometimes backups take more time than usual and in that case replication and/or copy job fails...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Enhanced possiblities for defining password policy in SPP

SPP does only allow to configure a minimum password length within the Global Preferences. Setting further options like: - minimum number of upper case characters- minimum number of lower case characters- minimum number of special characters- minim...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Test ISPP with Linux 8.5

For ISPP server we have currently Linux version of 7.X and Linux team is planning to upgrade to RedHat Linux version 8.5 and they cant go for 8.4 as it has security vulnerability Please advice correct version of ISPP which is compatible with for L...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

IBM SPP Report of Restored VMs for DR Testing

IBM SPP Report of Restored VMs for DR Testing
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Decomission of VM

We are waiting for documemtation on how Decomission of VMs work in SPP, Case number TS0008726 Typically we do see that customer want to do one of 3 things (in order of most common) when a VM is decomissioned:Store VM for a certain time, for exampl...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

How to calculate backed data volume on Replication / SPPArchive / Cloud storage?

HalloBacked up date is storing on BACKUP vsnap and then are copied to REPLCATION VSNAP (and maybe Cloud, SPPArchive/tape) We can easily calculate size of backed up date on BACKUP vsnap based on output from this endpoint: "/api/endeavour/catalog/re...
9 months ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Under review

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