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Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client)

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Add ability to query virtual disk size at the point of backup from SP client

APAR IT22561 addresses an issue which causes a failed restore of an individual virtual disk to report success, but there are deeper underlying problems here. As per the APAR text, to recover an individual virtual disk virtual disk once it has been...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

TSM BA Client support for file backup of data on CSV Volumes on MS Failover Cluster

BA Client currently does not support backup of files that resides on MS Failover Cluster when using CSV volumes (Clustered Shared Volumes)
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Individual file backup/restore of system files in W2K8 and W2012

TSM 6.4 running on Windows 2008 R2 Standard. Effective with Windows Vista and higher (including Windows 2008), files that are identified as "System" files by Windows are automatically excluded from the filesystem backup. The files are backed up on...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

GUI vs Command line

When I issues the command SET ACCESS BACKUP * nodename from the command line they get the following results as seen in the GUI: However, if they try to define it the same way in the gui an error is received: The results end up looking like this: T...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

TSM Bandwitdth management

The need is for a TSM client to dynamically modify its behaviour depending on the available bandwith
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 4 Not under consideration

GPFS: removed files by mmbackup wont reported by tsm

Although mmbackup is removing files because of incorrect encoding TSM Backup archive client is reporting successful backup.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Not under consideration

Tivoli Storage Manager not compliant with IBM ITCS104 security rules

ESA Security board request to open this RFE in order that TSM password rules management should allow to configure the minimum ITCS104 rules.<br />Example : upper - lower case in pwd ,    minimum length=10 ...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Not under consideration

Solaris x86 TSM Client support beyond version 6.2.5

The latest version available of Solaris x86 TSM Client is 6.2.5To date, no plans have been announced to include the Solaris x86 version in future client releases. We are concerned that we will bw unable to backup a large number of x86 Solaris serv...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

TSM backup support for 2016 Nano Servers

We are in need of the ability to backup 2016 Nano Servers with TSM EE
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Use SEEK_HOLE to improve handling of sparse files during backup and restore

Backing up and restoring Linux sparse files is extremely slow.Is it possible for IBM to modify the software to use the SEEK_HOLE functionality to detect holes quickly? See details at this URL: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13252682/copying-a-...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

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