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Backup of Cloud Apps

More and more applications are available online in the cloud such Exchange Online, SharePoint online, Dropbox and OneDrive Business.This areas do many think it's including backup, but the backup is limited and not even close to many customers SLAs...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

WORM directive for Directory Container Pool with Spectrum Scale immutable fileset

Specify WORM at Spectrum Protect level when writing to a Directory container pool when using Spectrum Scale immutability function on the fileset so Backups can be compliant with a series of security needs.
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

Canceling sessions by name

Running sessions can be cancelled only by session id. .Please add a funcionality to cancel all sessions from one node with a single command. Further: Please add a option to cancel all sessions and prevent reopening of sessions by a node. Thank you...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Enable customer provided SSL certificate in OC

Many compagnies don't allow self signed certificate anymore. Operation Center doesn't offer a solution to use CA signed certificate. It would be really usefull to allow customer to set it up.
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

Move Data from old copy pool to new copy pool

In order to handle tape media upgrades or tape recording format upgrades, customers need the ability to MOVE data from an old copy pool to a new copy pool
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Support for Spectrum Protect Container Storage Pools Greater Than 1PiB

Currently, container storage pools have a limit of 1PiB per Protect server. For backing up very large environments (such as Spectrum Scale), this can lead to a proliferation of Protect servers, increasing the complexity of the solution.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

dsmc query backup -detail show all volume IDs

dsmc query backup xxx -detail only display one volume id, please display all volumes IDs or volume_names used by xxx objects.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

Bring lin_tape source into the Linux kernel

The lin_tape drivers are causing us trouble either when the OS kernel is being updated, or if the drivers need an update. Keeping a high patch level for security patches is very important on backup servers, since the backup servers generally have ...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

24H Clock needed in DP for VMware/OC

Installing/configuring/educating users on Spectrum Protect including DP for VMware and Operations Center on a daily basis we have found a annoying drawback. In Sweden (and other countries) we are using 24H clock and we are not used to AM/PM weird ...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

timeout for a locked volume

There is a possibility of a volume that is being used by a backup session be requested by a migration process, but because it is locked the migration process can enter in a "waiting for access to input volume" state that can lasts a very long time...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

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