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Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client)

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Allow IBMi to backup to Spectrum Protect (again)

IBMi used to be able to backup using a TSM client to a TSM/Spectrum Protect Server.With IBM Protectier TS7650 being removed, our IBM i core banking environment no longer has a disk-based BRMS VTL to backup to.We have IBM Spectrum Protect running a...

snapdiff option for clustered ontap (netapp)

HelloWe have new Netapp filers in prodcution since 2 months and these use the new clustered ontap version (8.2). I have opened a PMR because the snapdiff option didn't work on these filers and the support told me that snapdiff was only possible on...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 11 Delivered

Renew Certificate for all clients

Now have many of our IBM Storage Protect Server been running for years and it is time to renew our certificate especially our self-signed version that many of our installations has been configured with. In the 8.1.20 Server version is it now possi...

Support for Mac El Capitan (OSX 10.11.x)

The latest Mac release will be installed on many if not all new Mac endpoint devices. Further, many existing devices currently running Mac Yosemite (OSX 10.10) will upgrade to this latest OS release shortly. We have over 1,000 Mac client accounts,...

Snapdiff backup support for SP 8.1.4.1 Windows client and OnTap 9.3P2

We currently use Spectrum Protect 8.1.2 client to do SnapDiff backup of OnTap 8.3.2P7 file shares. We would like to be able to do the same using Spectrum Protect 8.1.4.x doing SnapDiff backups of OnTap 9.3P2 file shares. This functionality is crit...

TIVsm-WEBGUI REST API documentation

Having installed and configured TIVsm-WEBGUI package the REST API is visable an useable. But no documentation exists.

Support for Ontap 9.5 with BA Client

There is no documentation for support of BA client backups of Ontap 9.5 on NetApp appliances. The highest mentioned is Ontap 9.3 supported bu 8.1.4. I have a customer that is about to migrate to a new data center and as part of this move replace t...

Snapdifferntial backups for Netapp data on tap cluster mode (c-mode)

Tivoli Storage Manager Backup/Archive ClientNetapp Filer CIFS and NFS share backups.Currently Netapp snapshot functionality can be used by TSM to perform snap differential backups. This is particularly useful for large file systems with millions o...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 4 Delivered

Increase the command history buffer in dsmadmc to WAY more than 20.

The command history feature (up arrow) in the dsmadmc and dsmc command line interfaces has been limited to 20 previous commands for over 25 years. Assuming that this was some sort of memory limitation in the distant past, can you please increase t...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Delivered

Support for the TSM 6.1, 6.2, and 6.3 Linux x86/x86_64 Backup-Archive client on Linux distribution Ubuntu 12 ?

Support for the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) 6.1, 6.2, and 6.3 Linux x86/x86_64 Backup-Archive client on Linux distribution Ubuntu 12. Today, IBM supports only Ubuntu 10 and 11.http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21417165#6.3%20DI...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Delivered