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Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client)

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TSM 6.3 Solaris 10 and 11 64 bit x86 support

I have 2 large customers with a lot Solaris 10 and 11 64 bit x86 OS platform and need to be able to back them up.
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Estimate function in java clients

The new TSM clients dont have a feature for estimating the size of data to be retrieved. This feature is really important.
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 6 Not under consideration

In-Guest Backup for Oracle VM x86 Guest OS (Xen Based)

Oracle VM x86 is a Xen-based visualization. The guest operating systems are RHEL based with some special packages for some Oracle applications. So, it's not a 100% RHEL. Therefore the current statement is not to support it. This request is to supp...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

TSM client scheduler improvements

TSM client scheduler (or some other client service) should be track if the last scheduled backup was successful and if not, there should be a way to configure the service to perform an action.E.g. the last schedule was missed, so the scheduler ser...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Data collector for Spectrum protect

I would like to know if ISA data collector is available for Spectrum protect product ( TSM ) ?
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

8.1 Backup Archive client support for Linux BE on Power

No BA Client is available for 8.1 on SLES 11 on Power Big Endian.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Add feature to the BA client to automatically pull down a new version, install as part of a scheduled incr backup

This is not to be confused with Autodeployment.This feature would add the ability to configure the B/A client to download and install a new version either from its Spectrum Protect server or from public.dhe.ibm.com on the next scheduled incrementa...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Inactive folder deletion on TSM client GUI

In my Tivoli Extended Client on a Windows Server it is not possible to delete inactive Folders, only files are possible. That is not usable for me, because on that server many folders are changing and I have to delete also manually. This is in my ...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Journalled Based Backup for Veritas VXFS

We have a shared Veritas filesystem that contains a million plus files. We have a RPO of 15 minutes for these. The standard TSM client takes approximately 1.5 hours to examine this filesystem and so we badly miss our RPO. The JBB does exactly what...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Handling sparse files

This is similar to RFE 101191, but for versions of Linux that don't support lseek with SEEK_HOLE. For those versions of Linux, is it possible to use ioctl with FS_IOC_FIEMAP ?See the source code for BSD tar (not GNU tar) for details. When I was op...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

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