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Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client)

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    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...
    almost 7 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...
    over 11 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...
    over 9 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...
    over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Delivered

    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...
    almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 6 Delivered

    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 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Delivered

    Scripts executed on client to have parameters/environment variables

    When trying to implement backup with proxy nodes (and placing all data on a single target-node), a problem arises. Since backups with proxy nodes requires the ASNODE parameter, and in a hosted environment it is not desirable to create customer spe...
    over 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 4 Delivered

    Require Generic TSM Client Login Failure Messages

    TSM Backup/Archive Admin Client and Client display failures that are too explicit, and the requirement is that it is generic, in order to meet security requirements:.For this TSM issue, one message overlaps, that for the wrong password. This shoul...
    almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Delivered

    Clustered Data Ontap version 9.0 GA

    Unable to Backup our New Cluster running:Current Cluster Version: NetApp Release 9.0: Fri Aug 19 11:04:54 UTC 2016
    about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Delivered

    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 ...
    almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Delivered

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