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Cross platform migration (Solaris/AIX to linux)

X platform migration from Solaris/AIX to linux Primarily looking at being able to go from Unix/Linux to another Unix/Linux platform initially at the TSM 6.x version. There is also interested in migrating from Windows to Linux.Migrations would be e...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Planned for future release

Copy_Only backup (Single Ingest)

The requirement is to avoid multiple client backups of the same data, but allow image copy with different retention policies. In discussions with customer it has been suggested Dave Canan be involved in the technical design spec. Topics such as co...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

TSM support backup for Oracle Linux server release 6.1 (OEL)?

Does TSM support backup for Oracle Linux server release 6.1 (OEL)? Is this OS (Oracle Linux server release 6.1 (OEL)) is supported for TSM Extended edition and TSM DB agents? Does TSM support for Oracle apps?
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

TSM support backup for Oracle Linux server release 6.1 (OEL)?

Does TSM support backup for Oracle Linux server release 6.1 (OEL)? Is this OS (Oracle Linux server release 6.1 (OEL)) is supported for TSM Extended edition and TSM DB agents? Does TSM support for Oracle apps?
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Direct Backup to BOOST/OST enabled VTL

We would like to see Data Domain BOOST support in TSM. We are using Data Domain HW today but I think there would be same/similar advantage using this technology with for example IBM ProtecTier/OST? Competition (Symantec, Networker) have allready i...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Cancel TSM Admin Schedules/Scripts

Introducing the ability to cancel an administrative schedule or a script rather than having to manually cancel all of the processes a schedule/script might create. For this to work, would most likely need the introduction of a script/schedule id t...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Apple is asking for DD Boost support with TSM.

Apple is asking for DD Boost support with TSM. DD Boost, formerly called Data Domain Boost Software, enables part of the deduplication effort to be offloaded to the backup client server. DD Boost is now integrated with EMC NetWorker as well as wit...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 Not under consideration

Dedup info command

A tool for information of the status of DedupQ DEDUPlike 'sh dedupdeleteinfo' witch is a undocumented one
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 Planned for future release

Additional Client Administration Tasks

Add the ability to perform more client administration tasks like reading dsmerror.log or dsmsched.log files from the TSM server, or updating the dsm.opt or dsm.sys files. Grant appropriate administrator permissions, too. Business Reason: Add more ...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Dsmserv commands need date/time stamps

All output from stand-along dsmserv commands should be prefixed with date/time stamps.� It would be nice to be able to easily calculate how long something like a restore db takes.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Planned for future release

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