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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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    Ability to replicate all VSNAP backup data to a new VSNAP

    Ability to Replicate all VSNAP backup data to a new VSNAP, not only new backups that happens after the replication is setup (as happen today).
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Replication job 'Fails' when there is no data

    We have a use case where we would like to leave replication enabled for a backup SLA that runs manually. As the job is run infrequently users will not remember to run replication when they run the job. However, SPP reports the replication job as '...
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    SPP BUG - Unable to remove a Schedule from a Report

    After defining a schedule on a report, the schedule cannot be removed. If you 'untick' the schedule there is no option to click 'Save'. For custom reports, the workaround is the delete the report and start again, but for the default reports there ...
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Is a defect

    Search for VM backup status

    On a regular basis we are asked 'did my VM backup' or 'how long did my VM backup take'. There is currently no way of searching for his information directly within the SPP GUI, instead job logs have to be downloaded as a CSV and imported into excel...
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Add ability to restore drives over original location

    Customer would like to have the option to restore a drive directly over the original drive. Currently the only option is to restore the drive and have it mounted along side the original drive.
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Only restore blocks needed for VM restore

    Customer has requested if it would be possible to only recover the needed blocks to restore a VM back to a desired point in time. Customer stated that in previous tools this was the method used and that it reduced the time needed to do a restore. ...
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Summary Report

    Need a dashboard style report showing key performance figures for management. Current reports are PDFs containing long lists of information. There is no equivalent of the ‘General Operations' report that is produced by Operations Center for Spectr...
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

    Policy Overview

    Protection by policy shows number of VMs protected, but doesn't allow further investigation. Should be able to click on policy and see associated VMs.
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Exclude VMs from Sources Protected number.

    If I tag a VM with something like ‘no_backup' or just don't include it in an SLA it is still counted in the total number of VMs protected. There are some VMs (desktops, Citrix, Web, etc) where you may have a single configuration server and then ma...
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Unprotected VMs View

    At present it is quite hard to answer the question ‘what am I not backing up'. SPP displays a summary of this on the home page (Source Protection) and the Policy Overview page. On neither of these can I just click on the number shown and see a lis...
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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