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My votes: Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client)

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snapdiff to update last backup fields in filespace data

Could you please update the TSM snapdiff client to update the lastbackup information of filespaces when a "query filespace f=d" is issued. This would be the obvious behaviour and would be inline with the documented meaning of the columns This limi...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 5 Not under consideration

Melio File System backup

TSM BA client for Melio File System backup on Windows.
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

GFS2 Support

WE have at least two customer interested in getting support for GFS2 filesystems.
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

TSM BA Client Support for Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan

Latest TSM BA Client fails to install on Mac OS X 10.11. Support stops at 10.10.
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

tivoli storage manager ba client for Linux on POWER Little Endian support

as of v 7.1.2 only the tsm API supports Linux on Power little endian. We are hoping to backup clients running this configuration
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Client can get info about nodes he has no access being granted to

Issuing a "q fi -fromnode=xyz" from the dsmc command line, lists all filespaces from ANY node that is defined in the tsm servers poliy domain. This should only work for those nodes, the requesting node has been granted access to.
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

configure TMPDIR for TSM scheduler (dscmcad)

The TSM scheduler uses /tmp or /var/tmp as the TMPDIR for its temporary files. This appears to be hardcoded depending on the version of Unix being used.We are seeing regular cases of schedules being missed because the hardcoded TMPDIR is full when...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

version 7.1 32bit linux tsm client

We have several 32 bit linux systems that have applications that prevent OS upgrades. As new security vulnerabilities are found and updated, we have caused the TSM client to stop working, luckily we were able to upgrade tsm to the 6.2.5.4 client c...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

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 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

ANS1115W with snapdiff option

ANS1115W warning when excluded directoy are scanned with snapdiff method.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration