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Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client)

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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 10 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.
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Delivered

Introduce Timeout in DSMCAD

By default, dsmcad doesn't have any time out value. Post Rapid Force NVA 6.6.128 upgrade, the connection of NVA Scan is not closing as expected. Post Scan of TSM Client on dynamic or dedicated dsmcad port, the connection stays as active, dsmcad se...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 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...
about 7 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
over 7 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 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 4 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 ...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Delivered

TSM Client for Solaris 11 (SPARC and X86) Support

Current TSM-Client(s) do not run on Solaris 11. (Not only it is not supported, it simply doesn´t work on Solaris 11)So we request a working and supported TSM-Client for Solaris 11
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 5 Delivered

Windows 2012 R2 support

Hi. We need to be able to backup Microsoft Windows 2012 R2 clients. Please provide a TSM BA-client that supports this as our customers are asking for it now.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Delivered

TSM client support for Windows 8.1

Windows 8.1 has been released; how soon will it be supported?
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Delivered

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