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Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client)

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Implement TSM BA Client to MS VSS Previous Version

Today when we implement TSM to new customers does we introduce the Web Client normally so a Windows/Unix admin can do the restore instead of the Backup Admin. But we could make it even easier for a new customer and tell them that they don't need t...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 4 Not under consideration

ASR Support for EFI systems

ASR-based recovery must be performed from within the Windows Preinstallation Environment (WinPE). The exception to using ASR with Windows NT 6 operating systems is for 64-bit systems whose firmware interface is based on Extensible Firmware Interfa...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Planned for future release

need an include.vmfull statement to assign management classes to VMs

When using TSM/TSMV-VE to backup full VM snapshots, we need to handle production and development/test VMs differently, i.e. they should get different management classes. This is currently very difficult to achieve. The logical and elegant solution...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Not under consideration

dsminfo OSINFO section more clarity

Requesting that OSINFO section of dsminfo output give more clarity on the OS distribution/level instead of just kernel level. This would be much more useful especially on Linux systems that could be any of dozens of Linux distributions.A system ca...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Planned for future release

Dropdown lists for Restore VM operations

It would be nice to have the client populate the Datacenter, Host,, and Datastore options in the Restore VM screen.
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Planned for future release

TSM 6.3 Solaris 10 and 11 64 bit x86 support

I have 2 large customers with a lot Solaris 10 and 11 64 bit x86 OS platform and need to be able to back them up.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Estimate function in java clients

The new TSM clients dont have a feature for estimating the size of data to be retrieved. This feature is really important.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 6 Not under consideration

TSM client scheduler improvements

TSM client scheduler (or some other client service) should be track if the last scheduled backup was successful and if not, there should be a way to configure the service to perform an action.E.g. the last schedule was missed, so the scheduler ser...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Data collector for Spectrum protect

I would like to know if ISA data collector is available for Spectrum protect product ( TSM ) ?
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

In-Guest Backup for Oracle VM x86 Guest OS (Xen Based)

Oracle VM x86 is a Xen-based visualization. The guest operating systems are RHEL based with some special packages for some Oracle applications. So, it's not a 100% RHEL. Therefore the current statement is not to support it. This request is to supp...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

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