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Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client)

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Bind management classes according to file size

Currently management classes are assigned by the backup archive client and are based solely on directories names and/or files names.In some cases, it might be better to assign a management class to a file size range.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect: Integration of exfs -filesystem needed, minor changes to xfs, HPE will give assistance

IBM supports XFS as filesystem in IBM spectrum protect Linux-client. We were using this solution on our scientific-storage for several years now (Suse SLES 11 with HA and XFS (CXFS as well at our second company site) as filesystem on our disk-shel...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

followsymbolic option for windows

There is no option to back up a content of a linked (or junction) directory on Windows.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

TSM client scheduler improvements

TSM client scheduler (or some other client service) should be track if the last scheduled backup was successful and if not, there should be a way to configure the service to perform an action.E.g. the last schedule was missed, so the scheduler ser...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Data collector for Spectrum protect

I would like to know if ISA data collector is available for Spectrum protect product ( TSM ) ?
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect scheduler - better handling MISSED Event

We're struggling in meeting the SLA because of MISSED backup. After investigation most of the missed backup we have here is hourly backup schedules being missed because a FULL backup or INCR backup is running for that same client node. Would it be...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Non-SSL adhoc node restoration not possible to initiate

Non-SSL Node adhoc restoration not possible configured to IBM Spectrum Protect Server 8.1.3 We have active directory authentication enabled for our spectrum protect admin session which requires SSL. But all of our nodes are still running in Non-SS...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

8.1 Backup Archive client support for Linux BE on Power

No BA Client is available for 8.1 on SLES 11 on Power Big Endian.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Webclient for 7.1.8 and 8.1.2

please know that in the Healthcare and Hospital environment, the Web Client is very highly used, and extremely important. Your statement that the Web client is not needed because the BA client GUI is available and can be used. However, you fail to...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Not under consideration

dsmj client for zLinux (S390)

On zLinux/s390 there is no GUI client since upgrade to Spectrum Protect server version 8.1.2+ (7.1.8).WEB client is not working any more and dsmj client is missing on zLinux OS. We need GUI on zLinux platfrom (WEB cleint or dsmj cleint)
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

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