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Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client)

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BMR to dissimilar hardware

We frequently have to perform BMR to dissimilar hardware. This has to be done using something like Christie and the functionality is not availabile in Spectrum Protect. However it is available in competitor products. Both Avamar and Net Backup hav...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

INCLUDE INACTIVATION DATE IN QUERY BACKUP

Include a new column showing the inactivation date of inactive objects in the output of dsmc query backup. i.e. dsmc q ba -ina -subdir=yes -showinactivationdate /mydir/* Also, it would be vastly simplify parsing if the dsmc client could do tab del...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

dsm.opt file getting blanked out when disk is full

We have observed couple of times that on Windows BA client dsm.opt file is getting banked out. dsm.opt size becomes 0 bytes and file is empty. We are using node replication. When disk is full and node replication is being used then while running b...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Is a defect

Add a status message to dsmwebcl.log on startup indicating POLLING or PROMPTED mode

Please add a status message to dsmwebcl.log on startup indicating whether POLLING or PROMPTED mode is being used, as well as the polling period (if polling).
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Domain statement honoured by archive process

Many customers need to do monthly/yearly Full backups. An archive is not an option since all filespaces to be included in the archive must be manually added. Systemstate info is not included in an archive and the DOMAIN statement is not honoured b...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Solaris x86 TSM Client support for Version 7.x

We have productive Solaris Servers both x86 and SPARC on Solaris 10 and 11. We run our SAP-Environment and other Services and continue to deploy further Functionalities on Solaris. Most of our central Products run on Solaris. There are no plans to...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 5 Not under consideration

Ignore/Skip Windows RC Codes during Backup

As you can see in the PMR we got a big problem with some files on a netapp filer. This files were created by randomly by netapp filer. Problem is that these files have no owner, or other NTFS securitys so an windows RC appears if the BA Client try...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Is a defect

BMR -TSM client should contain a very small set of files to run on WinPE (w/o java etc)

BMR -TSM client should contain a very small set of files to run on WinPE (w/o java etc).TSM Client is bigger than the rest of a WinPE BootCD and also containing unneeded files like JAVA. This need more time to load the image into RAM during boot a...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Not under consideration

TSM IBM

Customer request to get a TSM BA client supported on FreeBSD OS, and need to take this compatibility in the future releases
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

GM needs Ubuntu supported for the Spectrum Scale HSM Client asap

Customer has purchased 130PB SP License and needs to run Ubuntu for the Protect Server and HSM Client
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

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