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Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client)

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Mark and Copy from TSM GUI results

When you restore data using the Backup Archive Client, you can click the Report button to get a Detailed Status Report. If any files fail to restore, the 'Failed' number will be incremented and you can press the View button to see a list of un-res...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Use a linux web client to do NDMP restores

There does not appear to be a way to restore a NDMP backup via a linux GUI client. This means that in order to do a restore a windows server needs to be provisioned, maintained and available purely for restoration purposes.
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Support Request-Spectrum Protect with SteelFusion

We would like IBM to look at Spectrum Protect and a product called SteelFusion working together as a supported configuration for CBI (Chicago Bridge & Iron)
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

INCLUDE INACTIVATION DATE IN QUERY BACKUP

Include a new column showing the inactivation date of inactive objects in the output of dsmc query backup. i.e. dsmc q ba -ina -subdir=yes -showinactivationdate /mydir/* Also, it would be vastly simplify parsing if the dsmc client could do tab del...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Changing the default path of the Staging directory

The following technote describes a case in which files stored in the staging directory are deleted:http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21692439 Instead of looking for workarounds, in the form of setting a different location in the dsm...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Obtaining SnapDiff backup base snapshot name

When running an incremental SnapDiff backup on NetApp volumes from the BA client, a differential snapshot is created on the NetApp in the beginning of each backup, and compared with the base snapshot remained from the previous backup. On the end o...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Hard Link backup and restore on AIX

Hard link can not restore on a very specific situation.While the backup or restore the hard link in different time, the hard link will lose.
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Client deployment and installation enhancements

We need to deploy and configure a lot of clients (round about 5500 nodes). There is no way inside ISP to deploy client code intitially to clients and confgure nodes from central point like OC. It would also be nice to use use the same install meth...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

TSM unable to recover file space if directory has been changed to symbolic link

If a directory is changed to a symbolic link on a zLinux server then TSM does not expire the director but continues to keep its backup as current. This causes a problem doing a restore because TSM client attempts to restore both the directory and ...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Stop File Content Backup on ACL Change

Currently when an ACE is changed in an ACL it will cause the full file to be backed up again in TSM. For example, if we have a 200GB file and we change 1 ACE in the ACL it will cause the content of the 200GB file to be backed up again when the con...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Not under consideration

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