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Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client)

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Lustre File System Support

In our many ongoing deals, "Lustre Support" is required by our customer.Luster Filesystem is supported by many other vendors, and our many potential customers have already introduced Luster Filesystem to their systems.Moreover, Luster support is o...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Fast End-User Feeling Restore

Today are we trying to get better RTO/RPO with as less money as possible. We are also looking at to backup/restore from a cloud environment. This is always a hazel when RPO vs money. And most of the time does all the end-users only want a couple o...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

backup and restore to windows cifs share without explicitly using net use

Currently in order to backup a windows cifs share, to do a snapdiff or otherwise, you need to issue a "net use" as a pre command to a scheduled backup. This is an extra step in configuration/scripting that shouldn't be necessary. This also makes i...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 4 Not under consideration

Achive/Retrieve/Backup operations on ISP v8.1 webclient

We need retrieve operations for webclient. Our pilot teams retrieve lots of files everydays. They are no administrator and they must choose files in the long list of everyday archives files. Our customers regulary ask some files. Pilot team are no...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

SP Client - Suppress interactive prompts

Hello, we do a lot of scripted restores and backups. We found that in a replicated environment under certain conditions a restore operation would for example prompt with "ANS2120W The last store operation date reported by the server .... does not ...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Support for CSVFS over CIFS/SMB

As a first step towards RFE 105269 (Spectrum Protect Support for CSVFS) backup/restore of CSVFS file system via SMB/CIFS should be officially supported. Right now, it seems to work, but is neither tested nor supported, according to IBM. A "query f...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Support for CSVFS

We are using spectrum protect backup software to backup windows environments, one of the requirement from business side to backup CSVFS file system, which is not supported yet.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Support for Windows CSVFS

Support for Windows CSVFS (introduced in Windows 2008-R2).In windows 2012 Microsoft drastically improved the usage cases for Windows CSV where you can use Scale-Out fileservers in a active-active windows failover cluster configuration which give t...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Introduce full support for CentOS as a client

Introduce full support for CentOS clients operating with TSM server. CentOS is binary compatible with RHEL and we have few problems with the clients other than getting support for minor bug fixes. Getting support can be difficult, especially when ...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

New warning message if object is larger than defined MaxObjSize on Storage pool

If a file is being backed up to a deduplication enabled storage pool, there has been defined a max object size on that pool - and the next pool not is dedup enabled, the following message is issued: ANS7906W The current storage pool ran out of spa...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

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