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Data Integrity Verification during storage pool hierarchy (copy/migration)

We use IBM TSM for our long term data archives (company asset), and we regularly copy the primary storage pool (tape) to copy-storage pool (tape), mainly for Disaster Recovery. In addition, IBM TSM migrates data from pool to pool as a regular proc...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

OpenStack back-up with Spectrum Protect

Customer VW (Volkswagen) Financial Services (VWFS) is in charge for managing the cloud solution for the entire VW corporation, which is based on OpenStack.VWFS is a loyal IBM Spectrum Protect customer. VWFS approached us with the request for a bac...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Log backup of SQL system databases

Log backup of SQL system databases should be supported in Spectrum Protect Plus
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

SCOM Management Pack for Spectrum Protect, Sectrum Protect Plus.

A management pack for the management of Spectrum Protect and Spectrum Protect Plus in System Center Operation Manager.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Allow snapdiff backups of NetApp CIFS volumes containing widelinks

TSM uses NetUseEnum() to determine if a NetApp CIFS share is connected before attempting a snapdiff backup. When run on a NetApp CIFS volume with widelinks, it results in the following error: ANS2831E: Incremental by snapshot difference cannot be ...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

Operations Center - Management class - Custom retention time

When defining a management class from the Operations Center, there are only predefined values for the Backups, Keep Extra backups etc.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

BackupSet tape Migration

We have backupsets created on 3592-JB tapes and we need to migrate these backupsets to 3592-JD tapes.We are in the process of discarding all JB tapes and TS1130 tape drive.We will have only TS1160 tape drives which can not read JB tapes.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

backup hyper-v 2012 the backup is work but we have error 12

We have backup server with windows 2012r2 and we install IBM SPECTRUM PROTECT SERVER 8.1.6 we have hyper-v 2012 r2 with 12 hosts with cluster , we install ibm spectrum protect for hyper-v 8.1.6 i want to backup only two vritual machines with linux...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Future consideration

'dsmc i' should never re-backup restored-unchanged files

'dsmc i' should never re-backup restored-unchanged files
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

define clientaction - change of default values

The define clientaction command, if executed without any parameters, starts an incremental backup on all nodes in all domains. This is potential risk because the administrator can make a mistake and press enter key before entering any parameters. ...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 5 Not under consideration