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Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client)

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Add feature to the BA client to automatically pull down a new version, install as part of a scheduled incr backup

This is not to be confused with Autodeployment.This feature would add the ability to configure the B/A client to download and install a new version either from its Spectrum Protect server or from public.dhe.ibm.com on the next scheduled incrementa...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Inactive folder deletion on TSM client GUI

In my Tivoli Extended Client on a Windows Server it is not possible to delete inactive Folders, only files are possible. That is not usable for me, because on that server many folders are changing and I have to delete also manually. This is in my ...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

World Writable permissions to citScanOutput.xml

We are working with a Banking client in which access to the Backup data to other users can cause issues. The File citScanOutput.xml which gets World writeable permissions may cause an security violation
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Is a defect

Journalled Based Backup for Veritas VXFS

We have a shared Veritas filesystem that contains a million plus files. We have a RPO of 15 minutes for these. The standard TSM client takes approximately 1.5 hours to examine this filesystem and so we badly miss our RPO. The JBB does exactly what...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Handling sparse files

This is similar to RFE 101191, but for versions of Linux that don't support lseek with SEEK_HOLE. For those versions of Linux, is it possible to use ioctl with FS_IOC_FIEMAP ?See the source code for BSD tar (not GNU tar) for details. When I was op...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Skipping sub-folder from TSM backup process without impacting its previous backup

I want to skip a sub-folder on a Windows drive (or a sub-directory on a Linux file system) from the TSM client incremental backup process. When I say 'skipping a sub-folder', I mean not to back up this sub- folder starting from tonight but not to ...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Better Support for Windows Server Failover Clusters with Asymmetric Storage

Support for asymmetric storage configurations with Windows Server Failover Clusters (WSFC) was added to Windows Server 2008 with hotfix KB976097 and is available with RTM versions of Windows Server 2012, 2012R2 and 2016. SQL Server 2014 AlwaysON a...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Help text in linux client

The online Help text in the Linux BA client refers to OS/2. tsm> help 4023ANS4023E Error processing 'filespace namepath-namefile-name': file input/output error Explanation:An error was found while reading from or writing to the file. System act...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

snapdiff to update last backup fields in filespace data

Could you please update the TSM snapdiff client to update the lastbackup information of filespaces when a "query filespace f=d" is issued. This would be the obvious behaviour and would be inline with the documented meaning of the columns This limi...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Avoid Windows server reboot during Auto client deployment due to C++ package installation

TSM Client Auto deployment code for version 7.1.3.2 is installing the "Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable - x64 9.0.21022" which is not the required pre-requisite for the 7.1.3.2 version. Also during the installation of Microsoft Visual C++...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

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