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Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client)

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TSM backup client fails to restore directories that were "over quota" when the backup was performed

Novell NSS file system (on a SLES based server) has a feature called "directory quota". It is possible to set such a quota on a directory, such that the quota is lower than the amount of data currently stored within the directory. TSM will backup ...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Not under consideration

File Restore from Image backup

I would like to propose an enhancement to TSM's image-level backup feature such that the recovery of individual or multiple file and/or directory objects is possible. This would provide a "best of both worlds" in the sense that very large scale fi...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Not under consideration

Request Compatiblity Between TSM Ver 7, Rel 1, Level 0.100 and Ver 5, Rel 5, Level 7.0 with Oracle Linux Server release 6.9

System: Storage Management Server for AIX - Version 7, Release 1, Level 0.100 and Storage Management Server for AIX-RS/6000 - Version 5, Release 5, Level 7.0.Actor: VALE Request: Vale is implementing an Oracle Cloud Migration Project in Oracle EXA...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Please post TSM Windows client software to allow integration into Windows Update

Please integrate TSM Windows clients software update download capabilities with Windows Update.
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Please post TSM Linux BA client in public standard linux repository

Post Linux packages for BA client on a publicly available RPM repository. Standard Linux distributions can then add that repository to the list of update sources, and run a standard system update process.
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

TSM support for Oracle VM and Oracle Enterprise Linux

My customer addressed TSM as their standard product that provides backup archive across various platform (AIX,Windows,Linux(RHEL,SLES)Recently Oracle Linux and Oracle were installed in their environment. My customer ask TSM to support Oracle VM an...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Update on "best effort" Support

Our University uses TSM Client for our site-wide backup and archive strategy. However we have multple Ubuntu, Debian and CentOS instances. Some are under "best effort". Recently the actual debian (v8, released in April 2015) is not in this list. I...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

TSM6.3 BAClient : Restore : Volume and number of files : estimation

Before to launch restoring with the baclient, the number of files and the total volume are checked.It's dangerous to launch a blind restore.This functionality was available in TSM5.5. The process duration was also provided.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 5 Not under consideration

Allow configuration of filespace for Hyper-V backups

When you backup a Hyper-V VM using the "backup vm" command, the files representing the VM are stored in their own filespace. This effectively excludes them from expiration on deletion, as filespace aren't subject to expiration. When a VM is delete...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Repackage the Visual C++ installer to install to same folder as TSM Client during installation to avoid conflict with apps

We need the TSM Client to install its VC++ component into a different directory than the default common/shared directory that other apps use. This is so that when we install or upgrade the tsm client, it does not upgrade the shared VC++ that other...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

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