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Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client)

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Estimate button

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

Enable multiple dsmc processes to share the client dedupe cache.

Client options for VCS on Linux should provide clusterdisksonly and clusternode parms (Linux client should have parity with Windows MSCS options).
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

TSM Scalability with NFS/NDMP

We have experienced significant scalability challenges with our TSM client backing up NFS filesystems when exceeding around 20M files and with NDMP backups starting around 60M files (unless the backup server is essentially dedicated, which is not ...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration