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Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client)

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Stop File Content Backup on ACL Change

Currently when an ACE is changed in an ACL it will cause the full file to be backed up again in TSM. For example, if we have a 200GB file and we change 1 ACE in the ACL it will cause the content of the 200GB file to be backed up again when the con...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Not under consideration

Estimate function in java clients

The new TSM clients dont have a feature for estimating the size of data to be retrieved. This feature is really important.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 6 Not under consideration

Add TSM support for Citrix Xenserver backup API

Increasing numbers of our TSM customers are using Xenserver virtualization, and would like to back it up with TSM in similar fashion to VMware backup. At this time you can only install a client into each VM, which has many disadvantages. Please ad...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

exclude.archive.dir

Provide an exclude.archive.dir option. Without that exclude all other directories, beside the one which should be archived, are scanned and archived. That is particularly an unwanted behaviour when one want to archive a folder from a NetApp snapsh...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Not under consideration

TSM Enhancement Request for virtual mount for Windows

Army ITA has a large Pentagon Telecomunications Center customer who has 34 bit Windows 2003 and moving to 64 bit Windows 2008. They are requesting virtual mount for Windows similar to what is currently availalbe for Unix. The current requirement f...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Not under consideration

Create fixlets for TSM version upgrades

Would like for Tivoli to provide Tivoli Endpoint patch management fixlets to upgrade TSM clients to new versions.
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Planned for future release

estimate button in TSM BA Client

Its not a new feature. In former versions (5.x) this feature exist.In former versions the button estimate was useable in the GUI so that there was the possibility to estimate the size of single folders.
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Not under consideration

In-Guest Backup for Oracle VM x86 Guest OS (Xen Based)

Oracle VM x86 is a Xen-based visualization. The guest operating systems are RHEL based with some special packages for some Oracle applications. So, it's not a 100% RHEL. Therefore the current statement is not to support it. This request is to supp...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Allow configuration of filespace for Hyper-V backups

When you backup a Hyper-V VM using the "backup vm" command, the files representing the VM are stored in their own filespace. This effectively excludes them from expiration on deletion, as filespace aren't subject to expiration. When a VM is delete...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

image backup for physical disk volume

One of big TSM customers is requesting to support image backup of raw in physical disk volume. The physical disk volume is pointed to /dev/hdisk in case of AIX and no drive letter/mount point in case of Windows.Today we only support image backup o...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

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