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Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client)

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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...
about 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.
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 5 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...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 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 ...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

define snapdiff and other snap options on a per filesystem basis rather than per backup command

When running an incremental backup be able to define the snapdiff or other snap option on a per filesystem basis rather than for the whole backup incremental job.
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 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...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Recover TSM client after network breakdown

When TSM client is running and if a network breakdown happens, when network comes back, the user has no clue to find out what has been backed up and what the TSM client is going to do (which is not restarting, by the way).
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 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...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 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...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Estimate button

Why do you have deleted on new ba client versions the button ESTIMATE? I need it, please...Thanks a lot
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Not under consideration

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