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Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client)

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Multi-session retrieve

Sometimes we may want to retrieve a full directory from previous archive session. Actually even if the files are spread over multiple tapes, the retrieve is done only on tape at a time instead of using multiple sessions to retrieve from multiple t...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

SSL/TLS Certificate Handling

The product should contain a mechanism to set up and administer SSL in FIPS compliant mode without requiring non-TSM commands. We would like to see TSM server commands for importing certificates. The encryption configuration should be kept in the ...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

allowing include file from command line

dsmc does not allow to specify an include file from the command line.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Ability to specify timestamp in archival retrieve with -filelist

Would like the ability to batch-retrieve specific versions of archived files. Using -filelist or some other method, not picky about how, as long as it can be handled in a batch process with no input from humans. We know the date stamp on the exact...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Not under consideration

Allow ANS1946W "skipped file" messages to be disabled on restore to increase performance

Restores of file systems with very large numbers of files can be unnecessarily slowed if the "-ifnewer" or "-replace=no" options are used and a large portion of the target file system already contains files. A recent restore attempt of a 6 million...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Support for NFS filesystem in backup client

Backing up NFS filesystems is apparently not supported. This is despite other products such as snapdiff on Netapp depending on it.    This means that snapdiff is not supported either. I would like to backup my Netapp filers in ...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 5 Not under consideration

TSM client support on Oracle Linux

The customer uses TSM product as one of the corporate standard backup solutions. He has a plan to implement some systems on Oracle Linux 6.4 and has raised the request that TSM 6.4 backup-archive client should be supported on the Oracle Linux. Ker...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Create parameter IFDIFFERENT for client option REPLACE.

Add a parameter for the TSM client option REPLACE .This parameter would be called something like IFDIFFERENT. This parameter would behave in a similar fashion to REPLACE=NO except it WOULD replace the file on the filesystem if it was dif...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 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...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

backup and restore to windows cifs share without explicitly using net use

Currently in order to backup a windows cifs share, to do a snapdiff or otherwise, you need to issue a "net use" as a pre command to a scheduled backup. This is an extra step in configuration/scripting that shouldn't be necessary. This also makes i...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

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