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Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client)

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B/A Client installation impact TIMTAM application

When the B/A client is installed it removes current gsk installation (in our case GSK7) and install its GSK8 package.
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Delivered

better NFSv4 TSM client support

Support the backup of NFSv4 *without* the use of global name space, including extended attributes via Linux client.

Solaris 11 Support for TSM v.6.2 Client

The RFE would require TSM v.6.2 client to be supported in Solaris 11 platform officially and compatible without any issue.
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Delivered

W2k8 system state backup performance improvement

We are used to systems state backup times of less than 2 minutes (W2k3). Having W2k8 clients now we see backup times of 20 minutes and more just for system state, even it's incremental and nothing has changed. You can also refer to call 75426,025,...

Enable -snapshotroot option with -filelist option on dsmc command

The TSM BA client dsmc command does not currently support the usage of the -snapshotroot option concurrently with the -filelist option when performing selective backups. We would like to use both of these options together when using the the dsmc c...

dsmc -filelist should support files with any character in name

dsmc backup client should be able to backup files with the -filelist option where the filenames contain *, ?, " or Newline (and ^X and ^Y for the matter of fact). dsmc can backup these files when you specify the files properly quoted on the comman...

SAP HANA DB Unable to restore with data integrity check

SAP hana db is unable to restore the data using the data integrity check. There is a work around which customer does not want to use. I have attached a document provided by the customer's dba team which entails the problem. I would like to know if...

Client Schedule Log Date/time Stamp

I am requesting the ability of the TSM client to include the date/time stamp on each line of the schedule log when the TSM client is invoked from a script instead of a TSM schedule.

Error messages for clearly incorrect include-exclude rules etc.

I've often noticed our users having trouble with exclude rules and I was wondering if you could put in some basic error reporting. Errors reported on-screen as soon as the TSM GUI is run would be ideal, as already happens with the message "ANS1036...

'dsmcutil updatepw' returns same message for locked node and incorrect password

Our TSM for Windows installer needs to check in with all nine of our backup servers when it runs on a client machine, in order to configure the TSM client software correctly. It then saves the correct tcpserveraddress and tcpport into dsm.opt for ...