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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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    Spectrum Protect Plus introduce support for file level backup and restore for Ubuntu and Debian VMs

    Spectrum Protect Plus introduce support for file level backup and restore for Ubuntu and Debian VMs
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Do not trigger a new base backup if the site associated with the SLA policy is changed

    Currently if you alter the target site in an SLA policy it will trigger a new base backup. This behaviour should be adjusted so that by default it does not trigger a new base backup.
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Document required "sudo" permissions

    The requirement for a single file recovery within Spectrum Protect Plus is to implement a sudo-configuration on each protected VM to assign:sppagent ALL=(root) NOPASSWD:ALL
    about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

    Select datastore per VMDK during restore

    When performing a restore it should be possible to select destination datastore for each VMDK-file.
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Stop automatically disassociation from SLA Policy

    If for example one has DNS issue (it happens) and the SPP appliance fail to resolve, lets say a specific fileshare that is associated with a SLA.Then the SPP appliance desides that this fileshare is not longer there and removes it from the SLA..Th...
    about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Is a defect

    Support less than 1 day of Oracle archlogs to be kept on system

    ISPP leaves a archive logs on an Oracle system for a certain amount of time, which is needed for recovery, altough Logs are also stored in ISPP on the vSnap share.Unfortunately this amount of time is set in days, so the least time is one day, whic...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

    SP Plus - Start Copy job/replication job when Main policy is complete

    Possibility to define in a SLA that a "Additional Copy" or "Replication" Should only begin when the "Primary" job is no longer running.
    almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    SPP support for Tanzu environments

    backup/restore support for K8s running on Tanzu (PVC and etcd etc.) with SPP
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Spectrum Protect Plus User Experience Enhancements

    User enhancement requests for Spectrum Protect Plus Make the dashboard interactive i.e. ability to drill down into the protection summary, the unprotected summary, failed jobs and running jobs. Make the dashboard customisable. All data accessible ...
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

    Add possibility to choose SPP GUI communication IP when deploying VADP proxy

    When having multiple IPs for SPP GUI / VADP proxys, it's not possible to choose the communication IP for the VADP proxys to communicate with the SPP GUI host.This is only possible by accessing the VADP server itself and running a script "update_va...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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