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Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client)

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    TSM Client for Macintosh OS X 10.9 (Mavericks)

    Apple released OS X 10.9 (Mavericks) yesterday - and as a free upgrade. As such, users have already upgraded to this OS, and want to be able to backup their systems
    over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Delivered

    TSM client support for Windows 8.1

    Windows 8.1 has been released; how soon will it be supported?
    over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Delivered

    VADP: Possibility to cleanup created VMware snapshots

    Affected products/clients by this RFE:TSM B/A ClientTSM for VEFlashCopy Manager (for VMware) Our clients which work with the VADP are able to create and remove VMware-snapshots, but in case of a failed schedule for the allover environment, our cli...
    almost 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Delivered

    TSM incremental backups of Hyper V .vhd files

    Currently, TSM can only perform FULL backups of Microsoft Hyper V VHD files. Most of the competition (Netbackup, Commvault, DPM) can perform Incremental Backups of these files. Can we implement Change Block Tracking/Incremental backups for Hyper V...
    over 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Delivered

    When IBM spectrum protect baclient will support SNAPDIFF backup on NETAPP version 9.13.y?

    The BA client version 8.1.13 (or later) up to but not including version 8.1.23 supports NetApp ONTAP versions up to 9.9.y (where y is 0 or higher). Starting with version 8.1.23 (or later), support extends to NetApp ONTAP versions up to 9.12.y (whe...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Delivered

    Renew Certificate for all clients

    Now have many of our IBM Storage Protect Server been running for years and it is time to renew our certificate especially our self-signed version that many of our installations has been configured with. In the 8.1.20 Server version is it now possi...
    about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Delivered

    Tivoli Storage Manager Mac client support for macOS 10.12 (Sierra)

    Add support for macOS 10.12 (Sierra) to the TSM Mac client.
    about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Delivered

    Snapdiff backup of NetApp appliances running in cluster-mode

    please add support for snapdiff backups on NetApp Filers running in clustered mode
    almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Delivered

    TSM Linux Client for Red Hat 7

    This is a request to get the TSM linux client working and supported on Red Hat 7.
    over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Delivered

    Maximun Path length

    Windows Backup client crashes when the directory path length is exceeded. Customer is interested in avoing this crash or increasing the path length.
    over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Delivered

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