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Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client)

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Have TSM not tampering my machine

I noticed that when TSM 5.x was running on my machine, I had problems running a web meeting at the same time as TSM Client was taking all (or most of) the network bandwidth. I would appreciated it if we could either allow a user to change the TSM ...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

q archive to have a summary view per description

have an option to "q archive" of -summary. This would then output the same information as q archive but in a summary format per description rather than per file egTotal Size - Last Archive Date - Time - File count - Expires on - Description 565 M ...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 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...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Support Linux Itanium 2 SLES 10SP3

The last TSM client version supported of Linux Itanium 2 is TSM Client 5.5http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=663&context=SSGSG7&uid=swg21211967&loc=en_US&cs=utf-8&lang=en.My client has critical server on Itanium 2 and...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Use a linux web client to do NDMP restores

There does not appear to be a way to restore a NDMP backup via a linux GUI client. This means that in order to do a restore a windows server needs to be provisioned, maintained and available purely for restoration purposes.
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Provide the capability of Tivoli Sysback backing up the rootvg to USB memory stick., boot from it and restore that image.

AIX 5.3 TL-9 / AIX 6.1 TL-02 and above provide support for USB memory sticks, We need to enhance Tivoli Sysback to provide the capability of backing up the rootvg to USB memory stick and also boot from them and restore the image. 5300-09 - use AIX...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

snapdiff to update last backup fields in filespace data

Could you please update the TSM snapdiff client to update the lastbackup information of filespaces when a "query filespace f=d" is issued. This would be the obvious behaviour and would be inline with the documented meaning of the columns This limi...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 5 Not under consideration

Implement Incremental NDMP backup for NetApp filers

We would like to be able to run incremental backups of our Netapp filer using NDMP. ie be able to run a command similar to backup node netapp1 /vol/backup mode=incrEven if the number of incrementals was limited.
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 4 Not under consideration

Ability to restore Solaris Active file permissions using PIT

To be able to restore permissions on Unix file system based on date (Using PIT restore) OR for TSM to force a backup of a file where the permissions have changed, to create an inactive copy. Currently TSM only keeps a single copy of permissions fo...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Windows TSM client installer to complete file replacement and verify without reboot

Windows installer should be able to identify any potential reboot requirement and identify the files in use so the administrator can get alerted before any installation process starts. Windows TSM client installer relays on replace on reboot windo...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

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