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Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client)

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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

archive directory recursively and singular fully qualified file

I want to be able to archive a single fully qualified file and recurse a directory in the same archive command. eg I currently have to run two archives to get the behaviour I needarchive -desc=ZZZZZZZ.ZZZZZZZ -subdir=yes /foo/apple/archive -desc=Z...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

add options to dsmc to register client using open registration

Open registration is a way to register nodes without intervention on the TSM server (open to the TSM server), but there is always a user interaction needed to get passwords in sync. add options to dsmc to remove the need for user interaction so th...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Journal based backup method for HP-UX platform

Journal based backup method for HP-UX platform.
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Lift 1TB limit on Image Backups for Veritas Volumes on Solaris

Currently, image backups on vxfs volumes greater than 1TB in size are not allowed. (see: https://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?tc=SSGSG7&rs=663&uid=swg21417528#solaris_probs ) This limit needs to be removed to allow volumes greater t...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Change dsmc selective to handle *, ?, doublequote, singlequote as nonmetacharacters

We want Linux GPFS mmbackup to backup all files that are legal in GPFS. Certain filenames currently cannot be backed up from mmbackup (RedHat Enterprise Linux5.6 (64bit), GPFS 3.3.0-14, TSM client 6.2.2.0, TSM server 6.1.2.1) because of the presen...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 4 Planned for future release

Windows uninstall to remove registry and services

During the un-install of the windows client there is a bunch of registry setting and services that are not deleted. I would like an option where you could ask the un-install process to remove the TSM related registry settings and or TSM services. ...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Display restore/ retreive size prior to performing action.

Be able to find the amount of data that is to be restored given the current selection in the GUI/web client.Using the cli you can run a q backup <filspec> -subdir=yes -querysummary To get a total file count, size, est number of tapes etcThis...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Change incremental action on change to ACL or xattr

Currently, TSM will back up an entire file if the ACL or extended attributes of the file are changed, rather than updating the metadata. See:https://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21448429 This leads to a lot of duplicate backups, and ...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

dsmc query backup -encryption=yes

An option should be added to dsmc and gui to query backup for encrypted files. In addition, you should be able to query backup for files that are not encrypted.
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 5 Not under consideration