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SPP SQL restore should have an option to restore to a different directory

There is no option to restore a SQL backup to a different directory. IBM support tested it and only option is to choose a different db name which will be unique and not affect the Sql instance already there.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SPP - DB validation prior to tape restore

Requesting that IBM complete a precheck of the system/DB target prior to the starting of the tape restore using Production mode. The case referenced above - TS006352692 was generated after waiting 36 hours for the tape restore and failure could ha...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Ability to import OVL into ESX host without vCenter

In previous versions with the CentOS based OVL it was possible to import the SPP OVL into an ESX host running without vCenter. For the latest 10.1.11, RedHat based OVL this function is not working.
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Azure HCI support for SPP

Hallo Please consider support for Azure HCI.
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Add a VM replication module (for BCP/BRP/DRP)

this new module would copy x vms towards another Vcenter. instead of configuring a copy towards a vsnap and define severals versions (retention), this new feature would copy vms toward another ESX, datastore (on another vcenter) with a SLA with re...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SPP support for Cloud applications

Customers start asking for data protection of cloud applications to a larger extent.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Schedule policy/job to execute every 4th saturday of the month

Policy can be set to start on the day of the month (1st, 2nd,...) and can be set to start at Saturday but repeat it every 4 weeks, because some months have 5 weeks it's not acceptable. We need it to be set(because of load) every 4th saturday of th...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Identification of offsite tapes when a SPP archive restore (with SP) is made ?

SPP archives are sent to LTO tapes with SP.Tapes doesnt stay unto library. if a restore job from an spp archive is executed, we need to know all requested tapes to insert into library when a restore from an archive SPP is made.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Make a setting that indicates internet access available or not

Secure installations does not grant internet access to any hosts directly, neither in nor out From fw logs, we can see that SPP tries to connect to outside servers, and that causes just noise in logs. I would like settings that enables or disables...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Filter for Backup, Replication and Copy in GUI

Under Job History in the SPP GUI it would be helpful to be able to filter by job job type. Example: Backup, Replication or Copy. This would make it much easier to search for specific jobs.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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