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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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Option to select files to restore from a directory tree view

SPP to allow file-level restore not just by searching for files or folder, but also by expanding a directory tree to input multiple selections
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Multiple Retentions Standard object storage

The ability to have multiple retentions in Standard Object Storage going to a repository server on Spectrum Protect.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Include database instance name in SPP report

On Microsoft SQL servers we have multiple databases running on multiple instances. It would be helpful in the SPP database report to indicate which instance on an MSSQL server the backup was for.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Future consideration

Migration plans for cloud offload data in SPP

Customers looking to make use of cloud offload generally have archival of snapshots in mind. This particular customer is currently using CloudA today may want move to CloudB sometime in the future. Currently when a cloud destination is changed in ...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Exclude certain days or months from SLA policy jobs

Spectrum Protect Plus in-built scheduler doesn't have the ability to not run backups on certain days.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

SPP PLUS: FUNCTION TO OPEN/BROWSE ANY .EDB FILE AND EXTRAC ITS CONTENT INTO PST FILES WITHOUT EXCHANGE/API MMC(GUI)

Develop a function for SPP PLUS software to read raw Exchange .EDB files without interaction with Exchange/API and browse the database content to extract all the mailboxes into PST files simultaneously.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus support for HNAS CSI Driver

Hitachi HNAS CSI Driver support is needed to backup Openshift persistent volumes with IBM's Spectrum Protect Plus. HNAS CSI Driver Documentation URL link: https://knowledge.hitachivantara.com/Documents/Storage/NAS_Platform/Best_practices/Hitachi_N...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SPP| exclude single folder from VM snapshot backup

In SPP for VM snapshot base backup, exclude single folder from VM snapshot backup. End user want to exclude there application/DB folder (one/more than one folder or particular extension for file like .mdf,.ldf)
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

IBM SPP needs to display the identity used for a VADP proxy

When a VADP proxy is configured, credentials must be supplied. Whether an SPP IDENTITY is used or not is optional, but only those VADP proxies configured using an IDENTITY are automatically updated when the SPP GUI server is rebooted. Therefore, i...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

On-demand Backup of all SQL Database of the one instance

We need options to On-demand Backup of all SQL Database of the one instance.Currently we need to select one by one database to on-demand backup.Best way is to have the 2 options, select one database or all of an instance.
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration