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Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client)

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Add Support of Snapdiff API v3

Dear developers NetApp provides a protocol or API called SnapDiff. Spectrum Protect currently supports the API in the Release v1. Now that v2 and v3 of SnapDiff are already available (as a REST API), NetApp has discontinued support for v1 in curre...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Planned for future release

SnapDiff v3 with ONTAP 9.13 and newer

It's great that Snapdiff V3 is now available with client version 8.1.23, but support is only available for ONTAP 9.12 and older versions. NetApp told us there is no reason for this. Could you please add support for ONTAP 9.13 and newer? IBM Suppor...
9 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Planned for future release

multiple backup sessions per FS

It would be interesting to be able to backup a single big FS with multiple backup sessions without the need to define VirtualMountpoints ( besides virtualmountpoints is not available on windows ).If the DSMC could automatically scan the directory ...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 7 Not under consideration

Powershell interface to dsmc and dsmadmc

Powershell is becoming the scripting language of choice for windows. It is difficult to call existing dsmc and dsmadmc command line tools from powershell and reasonably process the output. Powershell has an object pipeline model and file output do...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Missing WEB-client in ISP 8.1.2 and later

We updated one of out ISP-Servers (AIX) to Version 8.1.3 a few days ago. After having finished that I also updated one Windows Agent to BA-Version 8.1.2 (file Server). Everything is working fine except the fact, that the WEB-Client is no longer su...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

DSMCAD should write a PID File

DSMCAD is missing an option to write a PID file. When the daemon is started it forks into background and the started process vanishes. You can only grep the process list to get the PID of the running process. Tools like systemd need this informati...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Update notification for gui-clients when new version is available

We have a lot of not technically savvy customers (their pcs are not managed by the backup-admins) which are not checking for client updates on their own.I think it would be useful to have a popup notification when an client update is available (as...
12 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

B/A Client 8.x support for Solaris (SPARC on 11.4)

Customer is requesting support of B/A client on 8.x for SPARC Solaris Servers. Currently are backing up the environment with 7.x client but it's reaching EOS in Dec/2021.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Support for Active Directory Item restore

Today does IBM Storage Protect Backup-Archive Client only support to protect Microsoft Active Directory and do a total Disaster Recovery of Microsoft Active Directory. If we want to restore only one item in the Active Directory to get back from a ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Under review

IBM Spectrum Protect OneDrive Support

IBM Spectrum Protect need to be able to protect data on Microsoft OneDrive. Our competition can do this today and customers have started asking if we can do this or not.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

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