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Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client)

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SAP HANA DB Unable to restore with data integrity check

SAP hana db is unable to restore the data using the data integrity check. There is a work around which customer does not want to use. I have attached a document provided by the customer's dba team which entails the problem. I would like to know if...

Support for Cleversafe Locked Vault feature to provide retention conpliance

We have opportunities with National records and Archives Oman for a 100PB archive solution and with Ahli United Bank in Kuwait for a 1PB archive solution in both cases IBM's object storage Cleversafe is being proposed and we would like to include ...

qtree support with snapdiff with Spectrum protect

Customer data is on qtrees on NetApp. They are using NDMP And would like to move to Snapdiff. Most of their data is in qtrees and qtrees seems to be not supported with Snapdiff backup.
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Delivered

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 of NetApp appliances running in cluster-mode

please add support for snapdiff backups on NetApp Filers running in clustered mode
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Delivered

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...

TSM Linux Client for Red Hat 7

This is a request to get the TSM linux client working and supported on Red Hat 7.

New option to exclude compressed files from compression

When using client compression there are files that are already compressed that will (probably) grow in size.There is the ability to exclude files from compression processing with the exclude.compression option. However this requires a separate lin...

DOMAIN option to use with selective backup and archive

The TSM client option "DOMAIN" should be applicable for Selective backup and Archives.
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Delivered

B/A Client installation impact TIMTAM application

When the B/A client is installed it removes current gsk installation (in our case GSK7) and install its GSK8 package.
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Delivered