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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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Since Repository server will not allow SPP+ Catalog backup , support "S3 Compatible on TSM server", Then backup Catalog to S3 on TSM.

I have an open PMR because I already have TSM with a tape based Disaster recovery solution because I have no networked second site to use as a DR capability. We are not Internet connected with these systems, which removes typical S3 DR solutions, ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

FLR from VM target replicated via Vsnap

In case that SLAs which replicate the backups. Then, if SPP restores a file or directory, this file or directory is always restored from the Vsnap source in case of the Vsnap replication. It should have the option to restore the file from Vsnap so...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Identify each Restore Process choosing a name

In the jobmonitoring panel all restore process are showed with the same name " onDemandRestore". We should have the possibility to choose a name by restore process.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SPP restore skip existing files

Would like the ability to do file restores with the option of do not overwrite existing. Currently, if "Overwrite existing Files/Folders" is not checked, restore fails at first existing directory. The functionality should be similar to the Spectru...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Add hyperlinks from status icons on SPP Dashboard

When accessing the Dashboard the customer would like to have the summary sections at the top of the screen as hyperlinks.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Pick a backup to offload in a cloud object storage or SP as archive

Hello support, I would like to know if it is possible to pick a backup that i want to offload in a cloud object storage or SP.We can define a SLA to to it as a politic. But the goal is to do it in onetime. example:do an incremental backup every da...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Future consideration

Global Preferences Option to ignore alerts for skipped RDM and independent disks

Currently if a backup job runs and a VM has RDMs or independent disks these flag an error and are skipped and the job is marked as partial rather than completed so flags alerts in the dashboard. A customer has asked for this to be an option in glo...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Changing the mnt directory from root to dedicated file system

If we have a dedicated filesystem, it won't affect the space on root file system on Production servers. In our environment only, we faced the situation like the root file system is full due to this /mnt/spp/vsnapx/fspooly/ directory.
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

HW Snapshot support in SPP for DellEMC vPlex (VNXe/Unity)

Customer is running a PoC on SPP and part of the PoC are support for HW snapshot. Customer is using DellEMC Compellent hardware for most VMs and vPlex on VNXe/Unity for mission critical VMs.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Have the ability to choose the backup node in oracle

Spectrum protect plus does not currently have the ability to choose the preferred node for backups in the case of oracles like in the exchange for example, and we have this in question for some customers, who do not want to change in oracle
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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