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Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client)

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APFS support in the TSM Mac Client

Apple plan to release the Apple File System (APFS) in 2017: https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/FileManagement/Conceptual/APFS_Guide/Introduction/Introduction.html A preview of APFS is already available in macOS 10.12 Sierra....
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

HyperVFull backup command failing when guests not available

HyperVFull backup command failing when guests not available. even though hyper-v guests not availabe backup command should returned return code ZERO instead of 12.
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Error message by failover form IPv6 to IPv4

Every time a server switches from IPv6 to IPv4 it throws an error message. A warning would be more appropriate.
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Add support for EMC NVB using NDMP

Add support for EMC NVB to speed up NDMP Backups of EMC filer file systems
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

provide enhanced alternative to file-list with Spectrum Protect B/A Client

Currently, the filelist parameter requires a flat file to be provided. This is a poor performing data structure, and IBM development has pointed out that performance could be increased by being able to provide an alternative data structure, such a...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Allow DSMC Incremental to follow expiration logic of deleted files, even if using filelist parameter.

When a typical DSMC incremental backup identifies that a file is no longer there, it notifies the TSM server, which places the file in inactive state, which then puts the retention of that file under control of the policy settings for files in tha...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 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 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...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 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.
about 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.
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

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