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Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client)

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Custom values for failover server (TSM Client node)

Allow custom settings for failover server in client dsm.sys Current soultion will overwrite failover server settings in dsm.sys A few possibilites arise:- Publish values for each node from the node definition on the tsm server- Allow per node a cu...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Windows System State Backup does not include the Windows Internal Database

As parrt of the system state backup the Windows Internal Database WID does not form part of the system state backup. e.g. c$\Windows\WID\Data\master.mdf Windows own internal backup WBadmin backs this up as part of system state
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Restore or server migration: delete inactive files on destination file system

We have "dsmc rest Image c: -incre -deletefiles" (image + last incremental - deletion of the inactive marked files at the TSM server) to be able to restore the last status of a file system. Can we have "dsmc rest \\OldServer\Oldshare\*.* \\NewServ...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

TSM backup wildcard * on DOMAIN statement like DOMAIN /dir*

To be consistent with wildcard usage of "*" in TSM backup exclude/include syntax, this request is for the '*' to be provided as a wildcard for use in the DOMAIN statement, eg DOMAIN all-local -/dir/subdir*.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Backup algorithm needs to be changed to work OK for a chrooted environment

Customer expect that all files will to be backed up. This works under RHEL 6 buts makes trouble in a chrooted environment under RHEL 7. It seems that RedHat in RHEL 7 has changed the way they deal with a directory that is on one side part of the “...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

TSM backup compatibility with LTFS EE

Given a multi-tier GPFS cluster that includes LTFS-EE providing archive the backup should only apply to the disk and flash based storage. Once the data has moved to LTFS-EE then the backups should stop for that data.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Backup of Microsoft Shared volumes seems not to be supported by TSM

Problem titleAttempt to backup Microsoft Shared volumes results in retries for eachfile stored on the CSV Problem descriptionTSM Backup-Archive Client Version 7, Release 1, Level 1.3, running onWindows Server 2012 R2 standard having mounted Cluste...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

TSM and ILMT Support for Oracle VM Environment

We have the following environmentOracle Virtual Server  3.3.1 Oracle Virtual Machine OS Oracle Enterprise Linux 6 update 4 & 5 update 7Oracle Database version 12c, 11g, 10g This is environment (Oracle VM) is not supported by ILMT (IBM Lic...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Journal based backup for RHEL7

We will soon be deploying Redhat 7 for all our new servers, including a large number in the research space for use with large numbers of files (potentially hundreds of millions). Journal based backups are not available for RHEL7, only for RHEL6 wh...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

New exclude statement "exclude.systemstate all"

It would be nice when there is a exclude statement to excludethe backup of the systemstate on windows:exclude.systemstate allTil version 6.4 there was an special exclude-statement for systemservices "exclude.systemservice all" (Win2003,WinVista)
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

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