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Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client)

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Journal based backup for RHEL7

We will soon be deploying Redhat 7 for all our new servers, including a large number in the research space for use with large numbers of files (potentially hundreds of millions). Journal based backups are not available for RHEL7, only for RHEL6 wh...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

New exclude statement "exclude.systemstate all"

It would be nice when there is a exclude statement to excludethe backup of the systemstate on windows:exclude.systemstate allTil version 6.4 there was an special exclude-statement for systemservices "exclude.systemservice all" (Win2003,WinVista)
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Sanbolic Melio File System

Please provide support for the Sanbolic Melio FS. Other backup vendors support this product and a high dollar 'agency is using TSM backup and upgraded their environment to Melio File systems. TSM is able to see and backup this file system, but due...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

granting authority to a domain and subsequently adding nodes to the domain

- Granting tsm admin accounts node AUTH=ACCESS doesn't appear to allow them to log in to the locally installed BACLIENT GUI but the Web GUI works…. Is this Expected behavior? Client OWNER privilege works fine in both…. But what permissions does th...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

NTFS 8dot3 support during System State restore

The users have good data protection feelings, if the restore process is simple and straight.But after a Windows systemstate restore during Bare Metal Restore, the remaining filesystem restore shows error ANS1796I because 8dot3 is not activated.mor...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Tivoli rpm must be signed

To comply to PCI regulation, a subcontractor needs that software installed on Linux systems be signed.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

user-defined Encryption Standard (like China national encryption )support

Many customers in China, for example the large banks and state-owned enterprise, have the need for using their own encryption method to process/transfer their data. China also has the China National Data Encryption Standard which is mandatory to c...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

schedlogretention option is only applied at process startup

It is not recommended to restart the dsmcad process on a regular basis.We use the schedlogretention option is required to allow archiving of the dsmsched.log files, but this means that the dsmwebcl.log files continue growing for the life of the ds...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Correct reporting of unsupported OSes

I have been advised to submit an RfE following on from PMR 45729,001,866. We have noticed that TSM does not reliably report the OS level of unsupported OSes. As far as we are concerned, it used to do so: for example, when Mac OS X 10.9 was release...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Is a defect

enhancement request for TransErrno messages

This applies to Unix clients (AIX, Linux, Solaris). Please enhance the TransErrno error messages to include the full pathname of the ofeending filesystem entry. This would aid in analysing the errors message like these that often follow the TransE...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

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