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Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client)

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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...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Timeout value for recieving file information during inspection

The new feature I would like to have implemented is just a simple timeout value (or some kind of watchdog) which skips the inspection and backup of a file when the file information is not retrievable during inspection.<br />An additional hel...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

FROMOwner as a dsm.sys option

SErvername server_a COMMMethod TCPIP TCPPort 1500 FROMOwner root USERs root archive
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Support for "actual" option on NFS exports in snapdiff backups

NetApp volume exported with "actual" option:/ctools_searchindex -sec=sys,actual=/vol/crystal_ctools_searchindex,rw=172.32.1.10Mounted on the client:mount 172.32.1.9:/ctools_searchindex /usr/local/ctools/storage/ctfs/fsctools/search/searchindex Whe...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

API and core utilisation

The api is not multi cpu enabled.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

TSM Journal Backup for Network Shares

The TSM Journal Backup only works with local drives on the all TSM versions. In our company, we have a lot of network shares, like this example: 04/22/2013 03:47:44 --- SCHEDULEREC STATUS BEGIN04/22/2013 03:47:44 Total number of objects inspected:...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Support of TSM Client Imagebackups on AIX with using LVM Mirror Pools

We are using LVM mirror pools in AIX. The imagebackup on the client system with the mirror pools doesn't work, because the internal command creating a logical volume group that is used, needs the parameters for the mirror pools, and there is no wa...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Warning wcreted when accessing file systems that are not backed up

When the client starts a filesystem mount problem is only reported in the local error log. If there is an warning/error that effects the status of the backup as this does, it should be sent to the TSM server actlog so that the error is know withou...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Add "number of copies/locations/storagepools" to q archive client output

We want to be able to be able to see from the client how many locations an archive is stored. A location being a storage pool. ie if it's in two storage pools it is in 2 locations. An additional detail parameter could be displayed as egStoragepool...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Improve interface for includes and excludes in the TSM client

Includes and excludes are difficult to configure for novice users (even for some experienced admins). I believe we could get much better adoption of TSM in our environment if there was a config wizard that would build the include/exclude files. A ...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

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